It Begins with Hope – Inspirational Quotes

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Inspirational Quotes

“At any rate, that is Happiness; To be dissolved into something Complete and Great” – Willa Cather

“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I am not living” – Johnathan Safran Foer

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good” – John Steinbeck

“Addiction begins with the hope that something “out there” can instantly fill up the emptiness inside” – Jean Kilbourne

“Addicts never stand still; they are either getting better, or they are getting worse” – Alcoholics Anonymous 

“Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.” – Carrie Fisher

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier

“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our…

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Independence or In dependence

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I rebelled and struck out on my own as early as I was unable. I wanted to be my own man, I felt alone like it was me against the world and that nobody truly cared about me. I didn’t realize until years later how wrong I was. I see today by forcing my independence and not allowing anyone to get close to me out of fear of being hurt or letting them down is what lead to my isolation. I told my Wife before I married her “That I was going to do whatever I wanted whenever I wanted and would not answer to her”. The reason I said that, or so I thought, was to proclaim my independence. In reality I was trying to shrug accountability and responsibility. The two words I just typed struck me funny, because that’s exactly where I was going with this. Allow…

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