{"quotes":[{"text":"Gately can't even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It's like what would be the point. He imagines these people polishing the hell out of their leather and like playing a lot of really precise pool.","author":"David Foster Wallace","tags":["addiction","alcoholics-anonymous","bikers","drugs","recovery","sobriety"],"id":38678,"author_id":"David+Foster+Wallace"},{"text":"Alcohol is good at disinfecting things It can clean a surface or erase memories.","author":"Richard L. Ratliff","tags":["aa","alcohol","alcoholics-anonymous","clean","drink","drinking","drinking-alcohol","surface"],"id":123117,"author_id":"Richard+L.+Ratliff"},{"text":"Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program in particular is challenged with an opportunity of unprecedented magnitude.","author":"Chris Prentiss","tags":["aa","addiction","addiction-cure","addiction-treatment","alcoholics-anonymous","challenge","change","chris-prentiss","opportunity","reading","writing"],"id":139723,"author_id":"Chris+Prentiss"},{"text":"But what if I don't believe in God? It's like they've sat me in front of a mannequin and said, Fall in love with him. You can't will feeling. What Jack says issues from some still, true place that could not be extinguished by all the schizophrenia his genetic code could muster. It sounds something like this. Get on your knees and find some quiet space inside yourself, a little sunshine right about here. Jack holds his hands in a ball shape about midchest, saying, Let go. Surrender, Dorothy, the witch wrote in the sky. Surrender, Mary. I want to surrender but have no idea what that means. He goes on with a level gaze and a steady tone: Yield up what scares you. Yield up what makes you want to scream and cry. Enter into that quiet. It's a cathedral. It's an empty football stadium with all the lights on. And pray to be an instrument of peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is conflict, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair hope... What if I get no answer there? If God hasn't spoken, do nothing. Fulfill the contract you entered into at the box factory, amen. Make the containers you promised to tape and staple. Go quietly and shine. Wait. Those not impelled to act must remain in the cathedral. Don't be lonely. I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger ...","author":"Mary Karr","tags":["agnostic","alcoholics-anonymous","atheist","desperation","prayer","prayers"],"id":140475,"author_id":"Mary+Karr"},{"text":"The life of the Addict is always the same. There is no excitement, no glamour, no fun. There are no good times, there is no joy, there is no happiness. There is no future and no escape. There is only an obsession. An all-encompassing, fully enveloping, completely overwhelming obsession. To make light of it, brag about it, or revel in the mock glory of it is not in any way, shape or form related to its truth, and that is all that matters, the truth.","author":"James Frey","tags":["aa","addict","addiction","alcoholics-anonymous","alcoholism"],"id":164213,"author_id":"James+Frey"},{"text":"You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.","author":"Chris Prentiss","tags":["addict","addiction","addiction-cure","addiction-disease","addiction-treatment-center","alcohol-addiction","alcohol-addiction-treatment","alcohol-disease","alcohol-rehab","alcoholic","alcoholics-anonymous","alcoholism","alcoholism-addiction-recovery","chris-prentiss","dependency","depression","disease","drug-addiction","healing-addiction","inspiration","inspire","passages-malibu","passages-ventura","pax-prentiss","rehab","rehab-centers","self-help"],"id":174119,"author_id":"Chris+Prentiss"},{"text":"Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.'Subliminal messaging works!","author":"Nick Jimbanis","tags":["alcoholics-anonymous","humorous","inspirational","recovery","self-help"],"id":299881,"author_id":"Nick+Jimbanis"},{"text":"And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation 'some fact of my life' unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.","author":"Alcoholics Anonymous","tags":["acceptance","alcoholics-anonymous","serenity"],"id":323298,"author_id":"Alcoholics+Anonymous"},{"text":"By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aa","act","acting","action","actor","actors","acts","addict","addiction","alcohol","alcoholic","alcoholics","alcoholics-anonymous","aphorism","aphorisms","bar","bars","beer","beers","boy","boys","cocktail","cocktails","drink","drinker","drinkers","drinking","drunk","drunken","girl","girls","hangover","humor","humour","immature","immaturity","made-me-think","make-you-think","man","mature","maturity","men","orgies","orgy","parties","party","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","satire","satirical","thought-provoking","underage","underage-drinking","woman","women"],"id":335594,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to—instead of them—change reality.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aa","addict","addiction","addicts","alcohol","alcohol-free","alcoholic","alcoholics-anonymous","alcoholism","cannabis","change","depress","depressed","depression","drug","drug-addict","drug-addicts","drugs","escape","escapes","escapism","help","helped","helper","helpers","helping","kill","killed","killers","mind-altering","murder","murdering","reality","rehab","rehabilitation","rehabilitation-center","rehabilitation-centers","rehabilitation-centre","rehabilitation-centres","rehabilitations","rehabs","religion","self-murder","suicidal","suicide","take-one-s-own-life","took-one-s-own-life","weed"],"id":397892,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}