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Excerpts from "What to Put in Your Head Now that the Alcohol is Out"

Courage
"Courage does not always roar.  Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying 'I will try again tomorrow.""     Mary Anne Radamacher
We aren't people who would label ourselves as courageous, but we are.  Beating an enemy with the size, strength and tenacity of alcohol takes a large measure of bravery and dedication, and that's what courage is.  We have kept going, and we keep going, through daily challenges that would test the strength of our most favored heroes -- battles both external and internal.  We face our fears, once day at a time.
"If you're going through hell, keep going."  Winston Churchill
"Most people have attained their greatest success jusat one step beyond their greatest failure."  Napoleon Hill
"Fall down 7 times.  Get up 8."   Japanese proverb
"I want to be all I'm capable of being."  Katherine Mansfield
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by evedry experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.  You must do the thing that you think you cannot do."   Eleanor Roosevelt
""Live so that you can look any man in the face and tell him to go to hell."  John D. Rockefeller
"It might not look like I'm doing anything, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy."  Anonymous
"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce."  Anonymous
"Mistakes are a big part of being human.  Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.  Unless it is a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from."    Al Franken
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