#alcoholism

[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

There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority complexes. Or, to be cruder, a piece of shit that the universe revolves around. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#inferiority-complex #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

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

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#alcoholism #alienation #dependency #human #incidence

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

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did. ↗

— Liza Minnelli

#always #did #disease #early #get

My mother is still battling alcoholism. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#battling #mother #still

And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic. ↗