Quotes About Sobriety

There are three roads that can be taken in recovery. There is the clean path of sobriety and there is the road to relapse. The third way is the fast out. It is when the traveler realizes that relapse is just a slow suicide and there is no reason to wait.

Being too reasonable is a defect

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. It is in fact the great exciter of the Yes function in man.

I do not consume alcohol. You won't find a single picture that shows me drinking.

Pot is an insidious drug because it can steal your life away from you, without you even being aware of it. I had a love affair with pot for ten years. Pot was my most devoted partner.

Love is exaggerated affection; affection is unexaggerated love! Always be sober in everything!

I love fighting. One thing that is the key to that is I always love training. I love to. And I never drink before, no alcohol in my life, no smoke, nothing. I love training.

And there was this jerk named Dwayne who kept saying, 'Go on, have a beer. You know you want one. One little beer's not going to hurt ya. You haven't had a drink for three years. You can handle it.' He looked at me again. You know? I nodded. Caught me when I was vulnerable. You know, when I was still breathing.

If you're a real alcoholic or addict, you will stop using some day; it's better to be alive when it happens.

If you think," he began, "that being sober and working steadily broke my bullshit meter, now you know better. I knew you were nailing Cross again from the moment you started back up." Biting into my taco, I shot him a skeptical look. "Eva honey, don't you think that if there were another man in New York who could bang it out all night like Cross, I would've found him by now?

I love a drink. But I've never, ever in my life been on a stage and done a performance with an alcoholic drink inside me. Never have, never would. I've seen people who do and invariably they're never as good as they think they are.

Hi, I'm Jeff Healy of the Jeff Healy band. Don't drink and drive. I don't... you're blind!

Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.

I ain't drunk," Wayne said, sniffling. "I'm investigatin' alternative states of sobriety.

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness. I

When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I do a lot of yoga.

Yoga is how I got sober.

I've always worked from a young age and was never big on drinking or smoking, so whatever money I had I put into synths.

When I got sober and started working out, I fell into that trap of working out too much. I know a lot of guys can relate to that - if you don't get that runner's high every day, you feel like, 'Oh my God, I'm losing it.'

I quit drinking because I thought somewhere I had fallen in that trap of addiction, and the only way to get out of it was to acknowledge it to myself.

I'm sure that I am enjoying my sobriety. And respect it. If you've been through what I've been through, then you really do treasure it.

Treatment of alcohol addiction can take many forms.