Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
Passion without focus can lead you astray.
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
What's the point of staying sober?
Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day.
Passion is momentary; love is enduring.
People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I take them minute by minute, but I honor my commitment to stay sober.
I think it's important for me to show the world that sobriety hasn't made me soft. I'm on a mission to prove I'm still a nutcase.