#diction

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#past #regret #family

Amy [Winehouse] increasingly became defined by her addiction. Our media though is more interested in tragedy than talent, so the ink began to defect from praising her gift to chronicling her downfall. The destructive personal relationships, the blood soaked ballet slippers, the aborted shows, that YouTube madness with the baby mice. In the public perception this ephemeral tittle-tattle replaced her timeless talent. This and her manner in our occasional meetings brought home to me the severity of her condition. Addiction is a serious disease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death. ↗

— Russell Brand

#amy-winehouse #death #media #recovery #death

There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can. ... There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of desires. ↗

— Mark Epstein

#buddhism #desire #freedom #suffering #transcendence

As I make my way through, I feel okayness reaching through me. The funny thing is that okayness is not a real word. It's not in the dictionary. But it's in me. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#it-s-in-me #okayness #real-word #funny

Imagine trying to live without air. Now imagine something worse. ↗

— Amy Reed

#drugs #life #imagination

Gately can't even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It's like what would be the point. He imagines these people polishing the hell out of their leather and like playing a lot of really precise pool. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#alcoholics-anonymous #bikers #drugs #recovery #sobriety

Imagine this: Ice is coming to YOUR house. Can you HEAR it knocking? Are you ready? What will YOU do? ↗

— Cornelia Connie D. DeDona

#crystal-meth #drug-addiction #education #enabler #rehabilitation

An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try. ↗

— Jen Knox

#jen-knox #philosphy #psychology #intelligence

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity. ↗

— Richard Kadrey

#insanity #intelligence #intelligence

[The laws of logic] were placed in our minds by the Creator during the act of creation. We speak because God has spoken. God is not the author of confusion, irrationality, or the absurd. Furthermore, his words are meant to be understood by his creatures, and a necessary condition for his creature's understanding of those words is that they are intelligible and not irrational. ↗

— R. C. Sproul

#god #logic #the-law-of-noncontradiction #faith