#alcoholism

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

[C]ivilians are equally bewildering to the addict. I've watched people drink a glass and a half of wine and push away the rest. What exactly is the point of that? ↗

— David Carr

#equality

Drinking is something people do; it's not what you are. But when it becomes what you are, you need to think about becoming something else. ↗

— Tim Cowlishaw

#alcoholism-addiction-recovery #help-self #inspirational-success-failure #inspirational

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find. ↗

— Caroline Knapp

#alcoholism #drinking #love

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 tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread. ↗

— Vance Havner

#called #disease #dollars #hearing #hundreds

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. ↗

— Liza Minelli

#disease #early #get #help #i

My mother is still battling alcoholism. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#battling #mother #still

Being upright and uncompromising will lead to unemployment by themselves. But to be willfully ignorant of a calling in life as well, that is the denial of a born alcoholic. ↗

— Bauvard

#callings #denial #funny #humor #jobs

Looking For Love and Looking In All The Wrong Places ↗

— Gordon Rouston

#love