You have to throw yourself into a situation of trust with these things, especially that first day when you don't know someone and you're on a massive Disney Hollywood movie set.
Even if it is painful and lonely, associate with worthy companions.
choose to feel happy about whatever the situation is, knowing it will ultimately be to our benefit.
To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing.
How you conduct yourself along the path that is your life determines how your life unfolds.
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.
I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.
I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.
The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
I'm gonna speak the truth until the day I die!
Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.