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#1

“I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday's gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That's why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift... for those who are willing to receive it.”
― Ace Frehley, No Regrets: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir

tags: acceptance, belief, no-regrets, present, sobriety, today

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#2

“I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

tags: hard-hearted, sobriety

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#3

“I kept waiting for something bigger, something more profound, something that I could hitch myself to and be carried away once and for all to the heaven-on-earth that I deserved. I kept struggling for control, which was really a demand for everything I wanted--peace, happiness, love, perfection--all at once, right now, and for all time. I wanted life to be perfect, always. And when it wasn't, which was most of the time, I got really anxious, and when I got anxious, I started thinking about how good it would feel to get high again. ”
― William Cope Moyers

tags: sobriety

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#4

“It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

tags: discipleship, leadership, persuasion, seriousness, sobriety

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#5

“I appreciated her bluntness. Maybe it came with her sudden sobriety. Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding for twenty years, and it was exactly as awful as she remembered it.”
― Robert Charles Wilson

tags: alcoholism, sobriety, spin

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#6

“Hit the bottom and get back up; or hit the bottle and stay down.”
― Anthony Liccione

tags: abuse, alcohol, alcoholics-anonymous, alcoholism, beer, behavior, binge-drinking, car-accidents, consumption, coping-with-problems, courage-change-self-reflection, depressant, depression, drink, drunk, drunkenness, dwi, empty, excuse, health, intoxicate, no-direction, poisoning, recovery, rehab, saddness, shallow, sobriety, staying-sober, staying-strong, weakness

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#7

“I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice. I longed for the day when a state of frenzy would lead my mind to sober pasture, just as it had for Saint Augustine. I longed for the day when the love of one woman would be sacred enough to forget all the rest.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

tags: excerpts, healthy-living, hope, monogamy, novel-quote, novel-quotes, quotes-from-books, redemption, saint-augustine, search-for-love, sobriety, the-wanderess

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#8

“Kid, sobriety's like a hard-on; the minute you get it, you want to fuck with it.”
― David Foster Wallace

tags: sobriety

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#9

“It's hard to walk a straight line when you have nothing to hold onto”
― Blake Mays

tags: inspiring, life-lessons, sobriety

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#10

“Now I’m
sober and I
realize, I
didn’t drink to
escape the world,
I drank to escape
myself”
― Phil Volatile, Crushed Black Velvet

tags: alcoholism, life, poetry, recovery, sobriety, substance-abuse

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#11

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#12

“I will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything you had
and how I
offered you what was left of
me,
and I will remember your small room
the feel of you
the light in the window
your records
your books
our morning coffee
our noons our nights
our bodies spilled together
sleeping
the tiny flowing currents
immediate and forever
your leg my leg
your arm my arm
your smile and the warmth
of you
who made me laugh
again.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#13

“Life's as kind as you let it be.”
― Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music

tags: life, truth

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#14

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: paraphrased

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#15

“dogs and angels are not
very far apart”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

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#16

“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the
room was like sunlight to me.”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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#17

“Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#18

“I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
graveyard.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

tags: belief, life, perseverance, pessimism, sorrow, weeping

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#19

“In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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#20

“The greatest men are the most alone.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

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#21

“Never had I known a young girl so beautiful and at the same time so gentle and intelligent. Where were her men? Where had they failed?”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

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#22

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, constellations, daedalus, greek-mythology, love, stars

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#23

“The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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#24

“Yet because I knew nothing, nothing was beneath me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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#25

“They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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#26

“The most beautiful part of your body
is where it’s headed. & remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.”
― Ocean Vuong

tags: interaction, loneliness, poem, poetry

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#27

“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

tags: insightful, lonely, thought-provoking

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#28

“Why does our species always have to take our full measure of God-given misery and terror and mortality and then make it worse?”
― Dan Simmons, The Terror

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