I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised.
Q: What's the difference between a tweaker and an elephant? A: The elephant will eat all your peanut butter.
We've been there and come back. When you fall in the pit, people are supposed to help you up. But you have to get up on your own. We'll take your arms, but you have to get your legs underneath you and stand.
Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.
What can I do to become more like my Ideal Image?
Addicts have incredible energy, it's just all directed toward one goal. But what incredible luck and grace addicts have. You hear about it all the time, getting into some kind of crazy situation in order to get drugs or to get money for drugs, pulling off something where they fall from a building and land on a truck full of pillows. It's incredible will, and if you learn to focus that will on getting better instead of getting worse it's amazing what you can do with that. You can use that strength and resourcefulness for something real instead of scoring dope in a desert.
Maximum Rocknroll didn't have a map section. How was I supposed to know that Berkeley was not a neighborhood of San Francisco?
And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.
Yeah, it's an off day when I don't get somebody telling me how edible I smell. " - Bella Swan.
Don't consider sarcasm the 'be-all' and 'end-all' of verbal intercourse. Far too many people place way too much importance on the sarcasm instead of the talking, in and of itself, as a precious shared experience between people.
Full of troubles, the mind is still the only Garden of Delight.