I'm too frightened of confrontation, so I will always tip - even if the service has been really shoddy.
Truthfulness itself is almost medication, even when it’s served without advice or insight.
Think of the actual physical elements that compose our bodies: we are 98 percent hydrogen and oxygen and carbon. That's table sugar. You are made of the same stuff as table sugar. Just a couple of tiny differences here and there and look what happened to the sugar: it can stand upright and send tweets.
And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.
The truth about not having everything you need, not being fully equipped or qualified or allowed is that these limits are the nebula of creative genius. When you have total freedom i. e: no limits at all. You stop trying to make the best of things
Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue.
Optimism sprouts from the knowledge that you are in control of your own life, not your past and not those around you. Part of being in control is taking responsibility for how you feel. This means not just admitting to uncomfortable feelings but then examining your circumstances to see what can be done to change these feelings at the source.
There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.
Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.
I don't want to hide. If I get arrested, I get arrested.
After I binged last night -or was it tonight - I was convinced yet again that there were people coming to get me. It was more than just shadows and voices, more than just fantasies. . . . it was real, and I was scared to my core. My bones were shaking. . . m heart was pounding. . . I thought I was going to explode. I'm glad I have you to talk to, to write this down. I tried to keep it all together, but then I gave in to the manes and became one with my insanity.