26 December 2017

18 Favorite Recovery-Related Quotes for 2018 (Happy, Deep & More)


HAPPY 2018! (in no particular order):

1) "I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on." - Oscar Levant

2) "Because you are alive, everything is possible." - Thich Nhat Hanh

3) "The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." - Samuel Johnson

4) "Everything you own, owns a part of you." - Gracie Allen

5) "The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself." - Mark Twain

6) "To live is to suffer. To survive is to find meaning in suffering." - Viktor Frankl

7) "It's not trespassing when you cross your own boundaries." - Anonymous

8) "In a full heart there is room for everything and in an empty heart there is room for nothing." - Antonio Porchia

9) "Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down." - Anonymous

10) "How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that make me want to drink?" - Anonymous

11) "Silent Gratitude isn't very much use to anyone." - Gertrude Stein

12) "It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." - Andrew J. Holmes

13) "Talk doesn't cook rice." - Chinese Proverb

14) "For fast-acting relief, try slowing down." - Lily Tomlin

15) "Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens." - Epictetus

16) "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them." - Albert Einstein

17) "Nothing matters more than that we remain sober because when we remain sober everything matters more." - Jim Anders

18) "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop
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(Please note: The "Me We" pictured is by Muhammad Ali, Harvard University, 1975, and is credited as being the world's shortest poem)

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These and 172 additional quotes by the famous, infamous and anonymous are to be found in ALL DRINKING ASIDE: The Destruction, Deconstruction and Reconstruction of An Alcoholic Animal: http://amzn.to/1bX6JyO
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