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Any time someone gives you drugs, the purpose is to subdue. Always. Whether it is from a dealer, a friend, your mother/brother/sister/son, or your government--especially your government--the intention is to subdue, and always to feed another motive. Why? Because in getting high, your power and your intellect are blunted. Can the motive ever be in your best interests? Governments notoriously use sex, drink, and drugs to subdue their people. Notoriously. And we're falling for it. ↗

— Northern Adams

#evil #government #intelligence #power #subdue

But the other half of my motivation came from farther back in my brain, in the curious part that I inherited. It came from the spot in my skull that feels the burning need to unravel puzzles, finish crosswords, indulge in Internet games, and read all the mystery books I can get my grubby little paws on. Like it or not, need it or not, and want it or not, I can't leave a good mystery alone. ↗

— Cherie Priest

#puzzles #solving-mysteries #motivational

People will have their excitements, and a good rousing persecution used to stir things like the burning of Chicago or a Presidential election in our day. ↗

— Edward Payson Roe

#puritan #witches #motivational

Just get to lunch,” I muttered to myself. It was the only way I could control my anxiety. In 1998, I’d made it through Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL, or BUD/S, by focusing on just making it to the next meal. It didn’t matter if I couldn’t feel my arms as we hoisted logs over our heads or if the cold surf soaked me to the core. It wasn’t going to last forever. There is a saying: “How do you eat an elephant?” The answer is simple: “One bite at a time.” Only my bites were separated by meals: Make it to breakfast, train hard until lunch, and focus until dinner. Repeat. ↗

— Mark Owen

#motivational #motivational

If you talked to your friends the way you talk to your body, you’d have no friends left at all. ↗

— Marcia Hutchinson

#motivational #self-esteem #self-help #self-improvement #motivational

If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want. ↗

— Thomas J. Vilord

#motivation #procrastination #motivational

We are not victims of our past, we are victors of our future ↗

— Tina Mitchell

#motivational

Petunia only ever went to the doctor reluctantly, and her motive in doing so was always the same: she did it in order to feel less anxious about things. The doctor was supposed to make the worry go away; she did quite enough worrying without actually having something to worry about. When she came out feeling no less anxious, as this time, something had gone wrong. The basic contract had been broken. ↗

— John Lanchester

#doctors #worry #motivational

A little knee time first thing in the day keeps u standing all day! ↗

— Evinda Lepins

#encouragement #life-quotes #motivational #motivational

A little knee time first thing in the day keeps you standing all day! ↗

— Evinda Lepins

#enouragement #life-quotes #motivational #motivational