Quotes About Overcoming Alcoholism

#1. My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.

Mercedes McCambridge

#2. There are times God puts things in our lives that remind us of the past, so that we know ... not all is as lost as we thought it was.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#3. To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

Djuna Barnes

#4. I loved my friend for his gentleness, his candor, his good repute, his freedom even from my own livelier manner, his calm and reasonable kindness. It was not any particular talent that attracted me to him, or i anything striking whatsoever. I should say in one word, it was his goodness.

Leigh Hunt

#5. The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.

Isaac Asimov

#6. I've been known to spend an afternoon on ASOS. There's just so much on there, and I can't stand not seeing all the new arrivals just in case I miss out.

Ashley Madekwe

#7. Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.

Tina Weymouth

#8. If you're trying to figure out why something's not working," Old Lou had explained, "just focus on the things that do work. Move through those things first and eventually you'll find the one part that's stuck.

Danika Stone

#9. If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.

Criss Jami

#10. Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

Margaret Fuller