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

The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.

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

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.

choose to feel happy about whatever the situation is, knowing it will ultimately be to our benefit.

Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes.

Happiness comes from our response to the conditions of our lives.