“Living with an alcohol problem is just like living with an abusive partner. It leaves you physically battered, destroys your confidence and self-esteem, yet makes you feel perversely dependent on your abuser.”
"Whenever you think about smoking you must see it as a lifetime’s chain of filth, disease, fear, misery and slavery."
- Allen Carr
Awareness
"Part of the ingenuity of any addictive drug is to fool you into believing that life without it won’t be as enjoyable, and/or that you’ll be less able to cope with stress."
- Allen Carr
Awareness
"What does it do for you? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!"
- Allen Carr
Awareness
"Get it clear in your mind: CIGARETTES DO NOT FILL A VOID. THEY CREATE ONE!"
- Allen Carr
Belief
"Client: “Could you teach me to have an occasional drink and not get hooked again?” Me: “Of course I could. I could even teach you to take the occasional dose of arsenic.”"
- Allen Carr
Courage
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity