#alcoholism

We appropriately compared the lifestyle to that of drug addiction and alcoholism - lifestyles that one would be encouraged to seek help to leave - never encouraged to stay in. ↗

— Stephen Bennett

#alcoholism #appropriately #compared #encouraged #help

Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#also #blonde #disease #does #everybody

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#alcoholism #business #disease #egotism #executives

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#always #like #lying #recovering #you

We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities. ↗

— William Griffith Wilson

#alcoholism #carry #condition #contingent #cured

What was so painful about Amy’s death is that I know that there is something I could have done. I could have passed on to her the solution that was freely given to me. Don’t pick up a drink or drug, one day at a time. It sounds so simple; it actually is simple but it isn’t easy; it requires incredible support and fastidious structuring. ↗

— Russell Brand

#amy-winehouse #drug-addiction #recovery #death

She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#choices-and-consequences #heartbreak #marriage #marriage

I’m such an alcoholic that I go to church just for communion. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#church #funny #humor #religion #funny

A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#drinking #alcohol

Some things just couldn't be protectd from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place. ↗

— Denise Hildreth Jones

#bahamas #deception #friendship #natural-hurricanes #second-chances