Pericola Quotes & Sayings

Eckhart Tolle says, "Addiction begins with pain and ends with pain," meaning that pain is behind compulsive behavior. Eleven years clean, I still feel the urge to medicate pain. Whenever events don't go my way, my first instinct is to annul the feeling, to look for an external resource to solve the problem. The second part of Eckhart's edict kicks in here - addiction "ends with pain." Medication of any kind offers only a temporary solution; it always leads back to pain and becomes therefore predictably cyclical. — Russell Brand

I am the gatekeeper of my own destiny and I will have my glory days in the hot sun — Nacho LIbre

Some people take months, years, maybe even decades, during which they aren't sure whether they're on the outside of Christian faith looking in, or on the inside looking around to see if it's real.
As with ordinary waking up, there are many people who are somewhere in between. But the point is that there's such a thing as being asleep, and there's such a thing as being awake. And it's important to tell the difference, and to be sure you're awake by the time you have to be up and ready for action, whatever that action may be. — N. T. Wright

Yes, but nomes aren't hard to make," said Dorcas. "You just need other nomes." "You're weird. — Terry Pratchett

I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render. — Odilon Redon

We are inscrutable even to ourselves, I suppose. — Jennifer DuBois

I couldn't have done 16 months of deployment without a sense of irony. N — Patrick Hennessey

I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be. — Garry Trudeau

You can criticize something you strive for, and you can avoid something you dream about. — Nellie McKay

However, in a populistic culture like ours, which seems to lack a responsible elite with political and moral autonomy, and in which it is possible to exploit the wildest currents of public sentiment for private purposes, it is at least conceivable that a highly organized, vocal, active, and well-financed minority could create a political climate in which the rational pursuit of our well-being and safety would become impossible. — Richard Hofstadter

I'd gone from unapologetically commit-o-phobic to rom-com heroine in a few months — Maris Black

I think of the note.

I want to say me too.

I want to say I know.

I want to say I can read the gaps in your sentences. I can read the space between your letters. I know your language. It's my language too.

I want to say that. — Maria Dahvana Headley

Forgiveness is not a matter of who is right or wrong. It is a matter of doing the right thing. — Choa Kok Sui

Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem. — Willie Nelson