"We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is."

- John Steinbeck, East of Eden (via danseurs)

"One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison."

- Steve Maraboli (via creatingaquietmind)

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"Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."

- William Saroyan (via larmoyante)

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"You suppose you are the trouble
But you are the cure
You suppose that you are the lock on the door
But you are the key that opens it
It’s too bad that you want to be someone else
You don’t see your own face, your own beauty
Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours."

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Rumi (via quotes-shape-us)

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"I am driven by two main philosophies, know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson (via crookedindifference)

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"Although overall drug use is down in the United States, more Americans than ever are dying from drug-induced death, even more than from gunshot wounds. This underscores the need for different approaches for drug control, one that treats drug addiction as a disease, in which drug-related crime is addressed in a fair and equitable manner. We can’t arrest our way out of the drug problem."

- Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

"No one could be a harsher critic than myself. I am feeling that pressure. There are days when I wish I could just take a break from my own head."

- Amy Winehouse, The Word Interview. (via misswinehouse)

"Virtue and purity are not very different from vice, if they are not free from evil feelings."

- Anton Chekhov (via scottiehughes)

"Addiction is a disease of fantasy, a disease in which I told myself that everything was fine while I watched my life fall apart. When I was drinking and using, fantasy and reality were nearly indistinguishable; fantasy felt very real, a thing that I could reach out my hand and touch, in the condensation misting on the glass or in the finely cut fireworks clotted in my septum. The life I was envisioning for myself was at the base of every drink, just after the soar of the next hit, close but just beyond my grasp. How could I tell fantasy from reality when I believed with such certitude that things would change tomorrow?"

- Sam Lansky

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