The answers are never 'out there. ' All the answers are 'in there, ' inside you, waiting to be discovered.

You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is.

If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can't stop without physical or psychological distress (you have unpleasant physical and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms) or if you stop and then relapse.

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.

What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.

The Universe doesn't make mistakes.

Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where you are.