Charlock Plant Quotes & Sayings

Today as I was reading an article about a recent convention of psychologists in San Francisco. One of the major concerns of the psychologists and medical doctors attending the conference is the increase in the use of "legal psychoactive" drugs, such as tranquilizers. Many patients who do not have an organic illness go to their doctors because of emotional problems and are given drugs which will calm them, help them sleep better, or stimulate them. As these psychologists point out, this chemical therapy is based partly on the assumption that we should all be in a state of continuous pleasure, untroubled by stress. The consequences of taking these drugs are far-reaching, and dependence upon them actually takes away from the capacity to deal with the problems of life. Also, dependence upon drugs by the older generation can influence their children to seek instant happiness through the more powerful mind-altering drugs. — Eknath Easwaran

We never had to take any of it seriously, did we?' she whispered. 'No, we never had to. — Ayn Rand

Deep inside us we're not that different at all. — Phil Collins

You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground. — Della Reese

I bake all the time, but I don't like to eat the cookies when they're done. I just like the dough. — Sharon Stone

While you cannot deliver policies without principles, you cannot deliver principles without having power. You have quickly to move to a stage where, emphasising your principles, you build a programme, then call for popular support. — Gordon Brown

Woody Allen once said that 90 percent of life is about showing up. Ninety percent of healing people in psychological pain is shutting up - at least long enough to let them bleed the truth. That sounds easy, but it isn't. (68) — Keith Ablow