Liza Minnelli Quotes

Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.

Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.

But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

Anybody that's not supportive of me staying sober obviously has to go. But on the other hand, there are not really a lot of people who don't want me to stay sober. I was a nightmare.

Well, I'm still here. Didn't have to go to rehab, and I'm not broke.

I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.

I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about trying to get my father healthier, and there were moments when he was healthier. Then someone would give him a drink. I always felt if he had one person in his life who supported his healthy side, he'd be on his way.

One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.

When I was writing 'Southeastern,' I'd just recently gotten sober. For me, that was a major turning point in my life. It changed things I did on a day-to-day basis. My whole routine was upended. It took me some time to get used to that and figure out how do I keep myself entertained.

When you get into recovery, you have to relearn a lot of perceptions, attitudes, and self-awareness if you want to stay clean. You really do change.

I can't emphasise enough how grateful I am to have come upon sobriety.

It helps to know how to lose. You know it is not the end of the world, and you pick yourself up and move ahead.

I'm sober now and very happy.

I just hope by how I live my life every day that people can see there is another side to addiction. You can live with it and have a successful life.

I'm sure that I am enjoying my sobriety. And respect it. If you've been through what I've been through, then you really do treasure it.

When I got clean and sober, that was a major change in my life.

You can move past your eating disorder and not let it have control over your life anymore.

When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.

Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.

I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.

Overcoming the obstacle of my diabetes diagnosis was something that forced me tackle the challenge head-on and, with an amazing support system, eventually come out stronger.

I don't drink. I don't do drugs.