#rug

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

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#humility #leadership #leadership

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

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#struggle #life