Quotes
Authors
Vivek Murthy

"Drug addiction is an incredibly difficult challenge to manage on one's own. When I think of all the stories I've heard from people, the common denominator is that they all were ultimately able to find somebody who was willing to support them. Maybe it was someone they knew, like a parent or a sibling or a friend; other times it was a treatment center with a compassionate staff who didn't give up on them. That made all the difference."

-- Vivek Murthy

#Giving Up Quotes #Sibling Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“No matter that I have inhibitions enough to fill all my pockets; I keep trying , hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.”
“Young man the simple answer is: land, land and land. No-one gives up land. Ever.”

Source : "Review of Guest Speaker Dr Munir Butt". Yale Daily News, 1994.
“As a teenager I just wanted to fit in, just to be one of the boys. It was tough. I went to an all black school. I went so far as to have them print my negative in the yearbook. I think it was the black teeth that gave me away.”
“I don't want to be a senator.”
“Life is like a box of chocolates, you fill your body with toxins, And amoxicillin and penicillin to cure your illness. But in realness? These medical companies will get you monthly Prescribing me pills that make me ill, just to comfort me.”
“I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.”
“...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in the use of arms.”
“Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community.”

Source : James Luther Adams (1976). “On being human religiously: selected essays in religion and society”, Beacon Press (MA)

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