Quotes that can pertain to sobriety

Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
-Rudyard Kipling

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
-Rudyard Kipling

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.
-Rudyard Kipling

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
-Rudyard Kipling

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.
-Shel Silverstein

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
-Oscars Wilde

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
-Oscars Wilde

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
-Maya Angelou

Nothing will work unless you do.
-Maya Angelou

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
-Maya Angelou

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
-Maya Angelou

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That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink.
If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget;
if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate;
and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
Charles Bukowski.

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"We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable."
Jon Kabit-Zinn

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“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
― Dorothy Parker

…Sorry, nix that one. :grin:

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“When the past calls, let it go to voicemail. Believe me, it has nothing new to say.” -Unknown

“I dwell in possibility.” -Emily Dickinson

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