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“Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.”
― Bucky Sinister, Get Up: A 12-Step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos

tags: recovery, sobriety

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“Was I being groomed for some special mission? What possible purpose could an existence like mine serve? When I wasn’t drinking in crappy bars, I was home by myself reading: a life that was achingly lonely, and yet perversely designed to prevent anybody from ever getting close enough to really know me.”
― Heather King, Parched: A Memoir

tags: reading, sobriety, solitude

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“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics: The Annotated

tags: alcohol, drinking, happy

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“There is no better high than discovery.”
― E. O. Wilson

tags: life, sobriety

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“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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