"Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality." John W(illiam) Gardner "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." M(auritis) C(ornelius) Escher "If we can ... get them to understand that saying 'no' to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success." John Van de Kamp "A strong positive attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug." Patricia Neal "I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota." Fran Lebowitz All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone. - Anthony de Mello I used to have a drug problem but now I make enough money. - David Lee Roth Seven beers followed by two Scotches and a thimble of marijuana and it's funny how sleep comes allon it's own. - David Sedaris My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication--it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness--it is all that i have--and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. - Franz Kafka We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws. - Hunter S. Thompson You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye - Hunter S. Thompson Drugs are a bet with the mind - Jim Morrison Let me be clear about this: I don't have a drug problem, I have a police problem. - Keith Richards If it keeps you awake, it’s art; if it puts you to sleep, it’s a drug. - Unknown It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. - Walter Bagehot, "Biographical Studies" ( $ ) ( ? ) Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war? - William A. Turnbow Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery If you love something, let it go. If it comes back, great. If not, it's probably having dinner with someone more attractive than you - Bill Grieser Who needs love when you've got a gun? - Black Flag Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. - Charles Caleb Colton Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart. - Charles Dickens Those that go searching for love, only manifest their own lovelessness. And the loveless never find love, only the loving find love. And they never have to seek for it. - D.H. Lawrence People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. - Douglas Yates "Open Eyes, open heart, open up and fall apart" - Finger Eleven Life without love is meaningless and goodness without love is impossible. - Greg Jurkiewicz, "The Neo-Reconstructionist Manifesto" ( $ ) ( ? ) Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them. - Hermann Hesse The joy of life and its affairs of happiness digress into a pain of lost height. So, in all happiness there is sadness. That of a depressed state of losing, a time which no enjoyment can fervor the full amount because of the hidden realization of drowning in the opposites. - Hilliary Heard I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. Like a genuis, she is ignorant of what she does. - Jeanette Winterson, "The Passion" ( $ ) ( ? ) People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. - Ken Kesey And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. - Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet" ( $ ) In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. - Ninon De L'Enclos (1616-1706) Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden where the flowers are dead. - Oscar Wilde To love yourself is the beginning of a lifelong affair! - Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal Husband" ( $ ) ( ? ) To be loved, be lovable. - Ovid Love is the distance between reality and pain. - Robyn_hitchcock Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. - Truman Capote Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worth while. So when you're lonely remember it's true: somebody somewhere is thinking of you. - Unknown "Never frown when youre down, you never know whos falling in love with your smile" - Unknown It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. - Unknown True love can not be found where it does not truly exists Nor can it be hidden where it truly does - Unknown "I don't want to live...I want to love first, and live incidentally." - Zelda Fitzgerald Sometimes to realize you were well, someone must come along and hurt you. - Perry Farrell Men of genius are admired. Men of wealth are envied. Men of power are feared. But only men of character are trusted. - Arthur Friedman If the enemy within cannot kill us, then the enemy without can do us no harm - African Proverb Every cripple has his own way of walking. - Brendan Behan Enough is a feast - Buddhist Proverb If you want happiness for a lifetime - help the next generation. - Chinese Proverb …a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go hopeless, we are lost forever. - Chinese Proverb nly after the last tree has been cut down; Only after the last fish has been caught; Only after the last river has been poisoned; Only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten. - Cree Indian Prophecy Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision. - Hsi-Tang If you stand up like a nail you will get hammered down. - Japanese Proverb the reverse side also has a reverse side - Japanese proverb Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare. - Japanese proverb Fear is only as deep as the mind allows - Japenese proverb If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. - Jewish Proverb As long as you have nothing to shoot for, you will always have plenty of ammunition. - John Ward Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you - Maori Proverb Don't speak unless you can improve upon the silence - Spanish Proverb Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. - Spanish proverb Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. - Swedish Proverb