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"I can pretty much guarantee that you will at some point find yourself doing something that at one point you swore you'd never do. You'll do it for the sake of getting high, either directly or indirectly. Trust me. It will happen. You might think you know yourself better than anyone, but you have yet to become acquainted with your addiction. It will introduce itself in ways that you never thought were possible."
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"Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life."
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"Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered."
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"One of the first actions we take at Passages is to ruthlessly scrutinize, always under a doctor's supervision and care, the specific necessity of any mind - altering or mood - altering medications that our clients are taking. As soon as any non essential drugs are out of their systems, the feelings they were trying to suppress usually emerge. When that happens, we can see what symptoms the client was masking with drugs or alcohol."
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"Somewhere in the sun-washed space between Southern California's hills of sand and the present desolate volcanic sprawl I was crossing, my legs had strengthened, but " invisibly " so had my will. The wisdom of my body had cultivated vibrantly since those sadness-drunken months after the rape when I'd felt so numbed by the hurt and shame that I didn't move further. No longer."
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"It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it."
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"I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves."
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"I did not find my way out of the darkness until I admitted I was lost."
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"Perhaps that's the best way to recover, to return to the way things were before as quickly as we can. We won the Great Battle, so nothing needs to change."
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"I mean, okay, let's say we're all going to get better. Let's just pretend we will. Fine. Where are we going to go after we get better? What are we going to do with all of our newfound healthy behaviors? Back out into the world that screwed us up and screwed us over. This does not sound promising."
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"Nothing has to be funny. Sometimes I just laugh to heal my soul."
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"I know that my grandmother certainly did nothing to warrant my mother stealing all of her jewelry that my grandfather had given her as gifts over the years, just so she could peddle it for heroin on the street. Those were precious metals and gems that could never be replaced, and each one had a story behind it. A love story between my grandparents, that my mother flushed down a proverbial toilet so that she could shoot up, throw up and pass out."
Betrayal
"Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these."
Nature
"What you should actually be trying to figure out is how to tell your story. The one that is every bit as unique to you as your fingerprints.This is the truly amazing feat because you are literally the only person capable of doing that. Only you know all the parts to your story and only you can pass it on for others to hear if you choose to."
Storytelling
"The more fucked up you are, the more I like you. As long as you've managed to hold onto your identity through all the shit, then it won't matter how twisted you are. I will love you more for it."
Identity
"I have been known to think outside of all rules. Even my own."
Growth
"How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others."
Values
"Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone."
Transience
"I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below."
Emotion
"If you manage to live long enough, most of your greatest fears become fond memories to look back on."
Aging
"No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil."
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