#sobriety

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#cleanliness #come #courtesy #downward #excluded

Could man be drunk for ever       With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning       And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober       And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten       Their hands upon their hearts. ↗

— A.E. Housman

#sobriety #love

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion. ↗

— Pythagoras

#mind #passion #reason #rests #sobriety

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#drinking #sobriety #greatness

Sometimes… Sometimes doubt is the opposite of faith, but sometimes doubt can be a pathway to faith. Sometimes weakness is the opposite of strength, but sometimes weakness can be the pathway to strength. Sometimes addiction is the opposite of sobriety, but sometimes addiction can be the pathway to sobriety. Sometimes infidelity is the opposite of fidelity, but sometimes infidelity can be a pathway to fidelity. Sometimes failure is the opposite of success, but sometimes failure can be the pathway to success. ↗

— David W. Jones

#failure #failure-success #infidelity #journey-in-life #learning-from-mistakes

Sex parties, alcohol and drugs lost their appeal to Sven after a while. Music never did, in his continual search for that sober connection--intimacy with one person over a long period of time, as opposed to periods of intimacy with a bunch of random faces. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#connection #drugs #happiness #incubus #intimacy

I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

#been #career #couple #day #forward

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people. ↗

— James Larkin

#morals #people #raised #sobriety