Quotes About Sobriety

Oddly enough, not everyone wants to be affected in a positive way. Some individuals are addicted to their negative feelings. Just as many drinking people place little value on physical sobriety and never get sober, so too, many of us place little value on our emotional sobriety and never get comfortable.

Only we can decide how important emotional independence and emotional sobriety are, and what we are willing to do to obtain and maintain them.

No matter what label we give the feeling, we have willingly put ourselves in the victim role, and have given the person or situation that wronged us control over our feelings, our serenity, our emotional sobriety, and, if we are alcoholic, possibly even our physical sobriety. The seeming pleasure of holding a resentment isn't worth all that.

In my mind, people and situations "drove me to drink." Once I became sober, I had to learn to handle my emotions so these same people and situations could no longer do this to me.

In order to maintain their sobriety, recovering alcoholics can not afford to let others control how they feel.

They displayed more emotional independence, more emotional sobriety, more maturity. I, on the other hand, allowed a person whose actions I didn't like to control my emotional sobriety.

No matter what label we give the feeling, we have willingly put ourselves in the victim role, and have given the person or situation that wronged us control over our feelings, our serenity, our emotional sobriety, and, if we are alcoholic, possibly even our physical sobriety.

Before sobriety, the practicing alcoholic turned his or her life over to the care of alcohol, while the alcoholic's partner often turned their life over to the alcoholic. Neither took a leadership role in their own life. In recovery, everyone, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic, with the help of God and a good recovery program, accepts a leadership role and finds emotional independence,

Getting drunk or high every night. Being hungover every morning. You run out of options at a certain point. You come to understand why everybody else is living the boring life. And it doesn't look so boring anymore.

Loyal par paresse, honnête par lâcheté, bon par relâchement, doux par crainte, intelligent par avidité, sobre par hygiène - c'est ainsi que l'on peut avoir toutes les vertus.

I haven't been drunk in over a year—not since my mother fell seriously ill—and I've missed the way it comes with its own perfect glove of fog, settling snugly and beautifully over my brain. I don't want to think and I don't want to feel,

porque la sobriedad está bien si sabes interrumpirla con un pasote de esos de vieja estrella de rock millonaria

It is also true that much of the preaching was given over to the inculcation of sobriety and self-control. In the early half of the century, when the tempo of religious zeal was mounting, the clergy strove continually to hold their followers in check. In New England occasional outbursts of enthusiasm, particularly the emotional excitement aroused by Anne Hutchinson, called forth still more ministerial counsels of moderation

Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around

In truth, Celine never went too long without eating. HALT. It was her AA training. Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired - don't let yourself become any of those, if you can help it.

But Paul answered, “I am not insane, most excellent Festus; I am speaking words of truth and sobriety.

Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.

Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.