#addict

Gately can't even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It's like what would be the point. He imagines these people polishing the hell out of their leather and like playing a lot of really precise pool. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#alcoholics-anonymous #bikers #drugs #recovery #sobriety

Imagine this: Ice is coming to YOUR house. Can you HEAR it knocking? Are you ready? What will YOU do? ↗

— Cornelia Connie D. DeDona

#crystal-meth #drug-addiction #education #enabler #rehabilitation

I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their life back together... I just love the stories. The stories of the fallen world, they excite us. That's the interesting stuff. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#conflict #drugs #life

Drinking is something people do; it's not what you are. But when it becomes what you are, you need to think about becoming something else. ↗

— Tim Cowlishaw

#alcoholism-addiction-recovery #help-self #inspirational-success-failure #inspirational

An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try. ↗

— Jen Knox

#jen-knox #philosphy #psychology #intelligence

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#alchohol #drinking #drugs #loneliness #melancholy

Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#contradictions #cure #drugs #life #problems

It's too cold outside For angels to fly An angel will die Covered in white Closed eye And hoping for a better life This time, we'll fade out tonight Straight down the line ↗

— Ed Sheeran

#addict #angels #drug #ed #sheeran

It is never easy being the one who takes the first step. But if we want things to mature in our life, we must fight for them relentlessly without compromise or excuse. ↗

— M.W. Moore

#autobiograhpy #bi-sexual #life

There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble. ↗

— Sam Keen

#clinging #codependency #dysfunctional-relationship #howard-thurman #manhood