#rug

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#life #struggles #inspirational

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity. ↗

— James Frey

#drugs #inspirational #james #inspirational

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

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#learning #life #wealth #life

Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding. Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#junk #opium #pain #plant #seed

The path i walk lights up in flames ↗

— R. Karim

#life-and-death #strength #struggle #death

I'd just killed some of the best riders in the world - and I was clean. I'd taken nothing - no EPO, no cortisone, no testosterone, no painkillers, no caffeine. I had justified to myself that I was a great rider without drugs - yet perversely given myself the green light to dope again. I'd proved what I could do clean - how much more could I do if I was doped? ↗

— David Millar

#drugs #inspirational #pain #self #success

Written up in marker on a factory sign: I struggle with the feeling that my life isn't mine ↗

— Coldplay

#inspirational #life #song-lyrics #struggle #inspirational

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little. ↗

— Thomas A. Dorgan

#inspirational #life #struggles #inspirational

That paper-- it sits there, open at the employment section. It sits there like a war, and each small advertisement is another trench for a person to dive into. To hope and fight in. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#fight #life #struggle #unemployment #courage