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May these quotes about Sobering inspire and motivate you.
I was so jazzed about sobering up
and starting a new life;
I had to stop at a bar
to get a drink just to calm down.
- the television series Glee
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I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning
I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
- Winston Churchill
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
- the movie National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
Creationists make it sound as though a "theory'
is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
- Isaac Asimov
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Just one quality of the Buddha has to be remembered.
He consists only of one quality: witnessing.
This small word witnessing contains the whole of spirituality.
Witness that you are not the body.
Witness that you are not the mind.
Witness that you are only a witness.
As the witnessing deepens,
you start becoming drunk with the divine.
That is what is called ecstasy.
- Osho
He is a drunkard who takes more than
three glasses though he be not drunk.
- Epictetus
I have been brought up and trained to have
the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
- Winston Churchill
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
I don't care whose fault this was, just get it sorted!
And could someone please bring me something deep fat fried
and smothered in chocolate.
- the movie Shrek 2
I want to thank my parents for everything I am today -
fat, miserable, and paranoid.
- Anonymous
A conservative is a man who is
too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life.
Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
- Albert Einstein
Mind Chatter...
"I'm too fat; I'm too thin; and my hair is a fright;
And I'm never enough; and my world is not right;
I'm not smart; I'm not cute; I'm not strong; I'm a bust
I earn scorn; I earn hate; I'm no good; I disgust."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
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