Quotes About Sobriety

Having this message of sobriety and recovery to blast out into the world is also very powerful and kind of the reason why I'm on this planet, I think; it's one of my purposes.

My mother's sobriety - that's when I found the theater, that's when I moved from being a basketball player to being a musician, to being an actor, to then being a writer.

I always call my journey into sobriety, my journey into queerdom, because I really did hate everything about myself.

I was glad to be sober, but after ninety days, people weren't patting me on the back anymore, sayin', 'Good job on the sobriety! Go get 'em!'

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Sobriety has a way of allowing a person to begin to realize that the things that you do have consequences for the people that love you.

Somebody once asked me how I define sobriety, and my response was 'liberation from dependence.'

You can't legislate sobriety.

I'm very proud of my sobriety now.

There are people who I still knock around with from the Primrose Hill set, but they have found sobriety, too, and are doing their own things.

Sobriety has been the most life-affirming path for me.

Everything good in my life can be traced back to my mother's sobriety. She showed me that broken people can - with the help of others - turn themselves around.

My sobriety is a huge deal.

My definition of sobriety is to be in full control and not feel drunk, but it's not abstaining for religious reasons or any other reason.

Sobriety has opened my mind and unlocked parts of me that I didn't even realize existed.

I've enjoyed every day of sobriety and I felt so much better immediately.

I don't mind talking about dad and stuff, because that's part of my life, you know? For me to pretend to be like him, and do the same things he used to do is over. I can see past it now. It took me thirty-eight years and sobriety to realize who Jason Bonham is.

You don't need to drink to get over your feelings. Deal with your feelings that's how you get over them,

Each one you take is a commitment. If you break that commitment, the gods of alcohol will punish you with a hangover so bad you'll think Satan himself took a dump on you. -Milo

Man searches for courage in drink, but it is not courage that he finds, it is fear that he loses.

You want some?" he asked. "No, thank you, Inspector." "Don't drink?" "Not anymore." "How come?" "I drank to forget things." "And?" "I kept remembering them.

INTEMPERANCE.

Intemperance. The most damaging forms of intemperance are connected with eating, strong drink, and sexual activities. Overindulgence in any of these is fatal to success.

The awakening to serious, sober consciousness, was genuinely shocking. I had forgotten I was a man! The sadness of such an irreconcilable situation was so intense that I wept.