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1. Where youth grows pale, specter-thin and dies.

2. It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. (Shirley)

3. “We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.” Santosh Kalwar

4. “Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.” Carl Gustav Jung

5. "When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't." Luke Davies

6. "Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths." Drew Barrymore

7. "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." Russell Brand

8. "Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach." Ayn Rand

9. "Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!" Martin Luther King, Jr.

10. "Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values." Christopher Lasch

11. "Do not let your fire go out." Ayn Rand

12. "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other." Abraham Lincoln

13. "The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours." Ayn Rand

14. "Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections." Saint Francis de Sales

15. "Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs." Robin Williams

16. "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." Ernest Hemingway

17. "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily." Zig Ziglar

18. "I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom." Edgar Allan Poe

19. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Martin Luther King, Jr.

20. "What was so painful about Amy’s death is that I know that there is something I could have done. I could have passed on to her the solution that was freely given to me. Don’t pick up a drink or drug, one day at a time. It sounds so simple; it actually is simple but it isn’t easy; it requires incredible support and fastidious structuring." Russell Brand

21. "Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it." Bill Cosby

22. "People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years." Corey Feldman

23. “The priority of any addict is to anaesthetize the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.” Russell Brand

24. “Quitting smoking is easy. I’ve done it a hundred times.” Mark Twain

25. “Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence if you want, but it’s a rat in a maze. We all want the same thing. We all have this hole. The thing you want offers relief, but it’s a trap.” Tess Callahan

26. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” Mahatma Gandhi

27. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” Friedrich Nietzsche

28. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” Carl Bard

29. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” Helen Keller

30. “If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.” Benjamin Alire Sáenz

31. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” Japanese proverb

32. “The initial journey towards sobriety is a delicate balance between insight into one’s desire for escape and abstinence from one’s addiction.” Debra L. Kaplan

33. “Nobody stays recovered unless the life they have created is more rewarding and satisfying than the one they left behind.” Anne Fletcher

34. “You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let it consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star.” Jean Church

35. “Addiction is an adaptation. It’s not you–it’s the cage you live in.” Johann Hari

36. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” Henry Ford 

37. “Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem.” Kurt Cobain

38. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” Chinese Proverb

39. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” Nelson Mandela

40. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

41. “If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.” Zen Proverb

42. “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

43. “Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles, and you have to change it.” James Lee Curtis

44. “Recovery is not for people who need it. It’s for people who want it.” Unknown

45. “Be stronger than your strongest excuse.” Unknown

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