Chris Prentiss Quotes
The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.
Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.
The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.
The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.
Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where you are.
You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.
You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is.
What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.
The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.
The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.
The answers are never 'out there. ' All the answers are 'in there, ' inside you, waiting to be discovered.
Whatever you are trying to achieve in life, it is essential that you surround yourself with people who believe that what you seek and what you believe in are not only possible but also very probable.
You can be happy if you are willing to let go of your past and leave yourself unencumbered so you can fly freely.
You can open to the idea that whatever happened to you in the past eventually turned out or will turn out to be a benefit to you.
Embrace simplicity…be content with what you have and are, and not one can despoil you.
choose to feel happy about whatever the situation is, knowing it will ultimately be to our benefit.
Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually.
If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.
When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy.
There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.
Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.
Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.
A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer.
I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.
At the bottom of every person's dependency, there is always pain, Discovering the pain and healing it is an essential step in ending dependency.
How you conduct yourself along the path that is your life determines how your life unfolds.
The path of the knowledgeable, successful person, which only leads to supreme good fortune and great success is always directly in front of you.
Whatever you now do, whatever you now believe, whatever your current circumstances may be, you are perfectly equipped and fully capable of fulfilling your needs and desires.
First-class relationships are possible only in an atmosphere of total trust.
You have enough courage to face even your greatest fear.
Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing.
Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society.
Trustworthy partners always think first before they do anything that may affect either the reputation or well-being of each other.
To preserve what you have, to keep your relationships alive and glowing, give generously- give of your time, you assets, your attention, your help, and your love. Give of yourself.
Change starts with awareness.
A diminished self-image will cause you to slouch, to avoid meeting others, to avoid looking others in the eye, to be unassertive, and to be indecisive.
The world actually is a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything around you changing as well as mirroring your changes.
Believe that is cure is possible for you. Discover and heal the underlying causes with a holistic recovery program. Adopt a philosophy based on what is true in the Universe.
What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose is to benefit you.
There is no cell culture for depression. You can't see it on a bone scan or an x-ray. Not everyone with depression will show the same behavioral symptoms.
You are a perfect spiritual being. Get used to that idea.
When you imagine yourself as a failure or as having insurmountable problems in your relationships or any part of your life, you think failure, act failure, and produce failure.
Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the way you believe things to be.
It is ethanol that everyone is after when they drink alcoholic beverages. That is what gives us the euphoric feeling, and that is what all vendors of alcoholic drinks are selling.