"People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other."

-- Wendell Berry

#Lonely Quotes #Hate Quotes #People Quotes

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
“My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.”
“Each time the dharma moved into a different civilization or historical period, it faced a twofold challenge: to maintain its integrity as an internally coherent tradition, and to express its vision in a way that responded to the needs of the new situation.”
“What is real is always worth it.”

Source : Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press
“Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.”

Source : "Young, gifted and gabby" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2000.
“Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so.”

Source : William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”
“It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.”
“The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.”

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