#rug

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics. ↗

— Sebastian Horsley

#narcotics #self-esteem #self-pity #self-esteem

Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they’re willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#drugs #ecstasy #empathy

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference. ↗

— William James

#hallucinogenic-drugs #mysticism #nitrous-oxide #paranormal #mysticism

Vicki M. Taylor's "Not Without Anna," is a gripping, hard-hitting, thought-provoking look at the escalating crisis of teen alcohol and drug abuse. Charlene Austin ↗

— Vicki M. Taylor

#hard-hitting #mystery-suspense #teen-alcohol-and-drug-abuse #thought-provoking #thought-provoking

A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#inspirational #politics #revolution #struggle #freedom

What do you want? Where's the goddamn ice I ordered? Where's the booze? There's a war on, man! People are being killed! ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#crazy #drugs #funny #random #funny

Ros was dead. He had loved heroin more than it loved him. I was shocked beyond imagining; he was the first of my friends to fall. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#drugs #friendship #heroin #death

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to? ↗

— Ayn Rand

#admiration #atlas-shrugged #inspirational #love #objectivism

I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle...you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul. ↗

— G.I. Gurdjieff

#struggle #wealth #life

كفاح لا ينقدم إلا قيد انملة،و العالم من حولنا يهدر كالإعصار ↗

— Ahdaf Soueif

#love