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Words for
Reflection
Published On: June 4,
2001 Updated On:
January 04, 2003 |
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The truth is more important
Than making us feel good at every turn
- Bill Maher - |
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People are more
Than the worst things they have ever done.
- Anonymous - |
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Those with glaring defects
of character
often excel during times of war.
This is because each
defect spawns in its wake
A counter-balancing value of exceptional strength.
Without these powerful
counter-balancing values,
people with such glaring defects would perish
before achieving a place in the world.
In times of war,
the moderate do not prevail.
This both wins
the current war
And guarantees the start of the next.
- Anonymous |
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If
you love your unborn baby,
stop drinking and using drugs during pregnancy.
If
you can't stop,
you're probably addicted.
Get
the help you need.
Treatment
can work for you,
your unborn baby, and your family.
Terence T. Gorski.
(04-06-02) |
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"The best way to affect
supply
is to
reduce the demand for drugs ...
As demand goes down,
so will
supply ... The two are linked,
But the reduction in demand
is
central to
an effective drug control strategy."
George
W. Bush (02-12-02) |
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We must learn to live together as brothers
or we will perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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No
person is merely a means to an end.
The
life of each person
is and always must remain
an end within itself.
To
preserve our own dignity,
By
taking away the dignity of any other
We are taking away the dignity of all others.
It
is upon this
That the survival of all humanity depends.
-
Immanuel Kant |
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It’s important
for people to know what you stand for.
It’s equally important that they know what you won’t stand for.
- Mary H. Waldrip |
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You are victims not only of your own actions
but of the system which employs you.
- JUDGE CHARLES A. DELEHEY |
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin |
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I
have been driven to my knees many times
by the overwhelming conviction
that I had nowhere else to go.
My
own wisdom,
and that of all about me,
seemed insufficient for the day.'"
Abraham
Lincoln |
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We shall draw from the heart
of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston Churchill |
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On
September 11, 2001 the lives of all Americans
changed.
How we conduct our lives;
how we look at each other, and
how we treat each other
has all been altered.
The state of our physical, mental and
spiritual health has shifted - in small ways for some,
in larger ways for
others.
The very reality of how we conduct our lives changed
- perhaps forever.
Charles
Curie, Director of SAMHSA |
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It
is when our world within is destroyed,
When it is dead and loveless,
When
our loved ones are in fragments,
And we ourselves are in deepest despair.
It
is then that we must recreate our world anew,
reassemble the pieces,
Infuse life into dead fragments,
And
by doing so,
Recreate Life itself.
-
Hanna Segal (1952) |
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The highways of life are full of flat squirrels
who couldn't make up their minds.
- Unknown |
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If you can’t be a good example,
then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.
- Catherine Aird |
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Whatever you do or dream you can do— begin it.
Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
- Johann Goethe |
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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
- Pamela Vault Starr |
| The first step towards the solution of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines |
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Never "for the sake of peace and quiet"
deny your own experience or convictions.
- Dag Hammarskjold |
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If you
want something you've never had before,
You've got to do something you've never done
before.
-
Drina Ree |
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It isn't the mountain
ahead that wears you out –
It's the grain of sand in your shoe.
-
Robert Service
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If you think
education is expensive –
Take a look at the price of ignorance.
-
Derek Bok |
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Our dilemma is that we hate change and
love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain
the same but get better.
-
Sydney J. Harris |
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You
are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision,
and with a fine spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich
the world.
You impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
-
Woodrow Wilson |
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One
man with courage makes a majority.
-
Andrew Jackson |
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Anyone can
become angry --- That is easy.
But to be angry with the right person, to
the right degree, at the right time,
for the right purpose, and in the right way ---
That is not easy.
-
Aristotle |
| Nothing is more
destructive to respect for government and its laws than the passage of
laws that cannot be enforced.
Albert Einstein |
| "Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever; even if your whole world seems upset. Commend all to God, and then lie still and be at rest in His bosom."
St. Francis de Sales
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| "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny
exercised for the good of it's victims may be the most oppressive ...
those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for
they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
-- C.S. Lewis |
| "Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) British author |
| "Few blame themselves until they have exhausted all other possibilities."
Anonymous |
| "Declaring a war
on drugs to deal with an epidemic of drug addiction is about as
effective as declaring a war on sugar to combat an epidemic of
diabetes.
Terence T. Gorski |
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"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be."
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) British essayist |
| Oh, God! That bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!"
Thomas Hood (1799-1845) British poet.
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Terry
Gorski and other member of the GORSKI-CENAPS Team are Available To Train
& Consult On Areas Related To Addiction & Mental health
Gorski - CENAPS, 17900 Dixie Hwy, Homewood, IL
60430, 708-799-5000 www.tgorski.com, www.cenaps.com,
www.relapse.org |
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