You can be happy if you are willing to let go of your past and leave yourself unencumbered so you can fly freely.

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

The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.

I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.

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.

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

You can open to the idea that whatever happened to you in the past eventually turned out or will turn out to be a benefit to you.