"You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever."

-- Chris Prentiss

#Forever Quotes #Substance Quotes #Behavior Quotes

“The days are usually filled with nonsense and every now and again somebody flies by the circus to party on your dime.”

Source : "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview With Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.
“With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.”
“The ginkgo tree is from the era of dinosaurs, but while the dinosaur has been extinguished, the modern ginkgo has not changed. After the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the ginkgo was the first tree that came up. It's amazing.”
“I want to see a capitalism that manages resources in a new, much more long-term manner.”
“Music is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with a little sweetness amidst all the bitterness that we encounter here.”
“Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature.”
“I still get real nervous when I go in front of more than two people.”
“You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.”

Source : Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.117, Vintage

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