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“Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.”
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“The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.”
― Drinking: A Love Story
― Drinking: A Love Story
“I sit there and think how it isn't fair that I can't drink at all, even a little. I realize I have crammed an entire lifetime of moderate drinking into a decade of hard-core drinking and that is why. I blew my wad.”
― Dry
― Dry
“The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.”
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“Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill.”
― Not Like My Mother: Becoming a sane Parent after Growing up in a Crazy family
― Not Like My Mother: Becoming a sane Parent after Growing up in a Crazy family
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