The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
The best way out is always through.
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.
Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.
Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take toward your goal, whatever it is, whether it's giving up something, a terrible addiction or trying to work your way through an illness. When you total up those baby steps you'd be amazed over the course of 10 years, the strides you've taken.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.
I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity.
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