#ace

The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential. ↗

— Jim McDonald

#fear #inner-peace #personal-growth #self-awareness #life

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#being #book #creation #give #human

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#anyone #comfort #console #contrary #destiny

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#dangerous #deadly #findings #make #our

Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him. But as long as they can knock you back down, it seems like if you're an underdog again, and things do surface, and they think this is real, 'these guys' intentions are genuine and sincere,' it seems like they will embrace you again. ↗

— Fred Durst

#back #down #embrace #everybody #genuine

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable. ↗

— Robin Trower

#get #guitar #i #instrument #irreplaceable

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#best #culture #get #line #literature

The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea. ↗

— John Dyer

#amazing #amazing thing #arrival #departure #harbour

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#anytime #could #dead #decide #die

I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#happy #i #mortified #only #place