"The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I watched the bottle slowly take command."

-- Merle Haggard

#Alcohol Quotes #Drug Quotes #Bottles Quotes

“We simply do not catch a high enough percentage of users to make the law a real threat, although we do catch enough to seriously overburden our legal system.”
“Practicing Dharma is the supreme method for improving the quality of our human life.”
“I believe that the greatest truths of the universe don't lie outside, in the study of the stars and the planets. They lie deep within us, in the magnificence of our heart, mind, and soul. Until we understand what is within, we can't understand what is without.”
“You want the world to be set up for you, but sometimes it just isn't.”
“The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely”
“Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.”
“A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains--nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt.”

Source : William Ernest Hocking, Ph.D. (1912). “The Meaning of God in Human Experience”
“My belief is that guns are too easy to get in America. My belief is that the NRA has bought much of our congress, to the point that guns are actually the only unregulated consumer product in America. Think about that. It's stunning.”

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