#sobriety

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing. ↗

— Gary Oldman

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Be grateful. These feelings, no matter how painful, are part of living. Today, we are alive—not anesthetized, not sedated, not passed out. Take control of your feelings and through action you can change. Today, as every day of sober living, we have a choice. ↗

— Ann D. Clark

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Gately can't even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It's like what would be the point. He imagines these people polishing the hell out of their leather and like playing a lot of really precise pool. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian. ↗

— Herman Melville

#sobriety #religion

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety. ↗

— Moliere

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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety. ↗

— Gabriele Nanni

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I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking. ↗