Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components- anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain-wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain.

There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.

Although you may have never sat down and defined what your philosophy is, it is fully operative and working in your life at all times. It deals with what you believe about the world in which you live, about its people and events, about how you affect them.

The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.

The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.

How you conduct yourself along the path that is your life determines how your life unfolds.

You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.