Quotes About Sobriety

I don't even drink coffee. I try to avoid becoming reliant on any substance.

I just didn't want my legacy to be that of a few others that I don't even have to name, where I was controlled by a substance, or a liquid for that matter. My life is too precious to me.

The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity.

When we crave something, we are holding on to the desire for the pleasurable aspects of an experience, while denying or ignoring its painful and unpleasant aspects. Craving is inextricably linked to suffering. We can be abstinent and still crave the experience we have abstained from, which is why it is important for us to cultivate sobriety of mind: a mind that is free of craving, calm, and clear-sighted.

The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.

13. Moderation is dull. (Read G. K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy and The Man Who Was Thursday to refute that cliché.)

Dejó de beber. Eso lo mató. No podía soportarlo, pero lo había prometido

But darling, I am clean. Two years clean." "Cept the coke, weed, drink, pills . . ." "I said I'm clean, not a bloody Mormon!

It takes a lot of practice to ensure that a whole bottle of Cabernet and a pint of beer makes only a slight dent in your sobriety, but Howard felt he had reached this stage of accomplishment.

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

Being an addict is hard. It's something you have got for the rest of your life.

I had to change my relationship with alcohol in order to become the man that I knew I could be and that my family would be proud of.

Nothing I've achieved in my life has ever come about because of alcohol.

I'm anti-drugs, 100 percent. I don't like drugs or alcohol. I never did either of the two, and I don't plan on it.

I never drink alcohol.

Alcohol is the cause of all my problems.

I don't drink alcohol. I only really drink water.

It's better to have a voice without alcohol in my system from the night before.

I don't like the taste of alcohol.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.

It's funny I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.

I haven't had a drink in thirteen years, but occasionally I'm tempted to have one beer. The problem is that if I have that one beer, I wake up in Tijuana four days later with a tattoo and a sore ass.

It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.