Passages Ventura Quotes

#1. Alcohol is the drug ethanol. They are one and the same. Alcohol is also called ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol. It is a chemical compound. Ethanol is often added to the gasoline we use to run our cars.

Chris Prentiss

#2. Whatever you now do, whatever you now believe, whatever your current circumstances may be, you are perfectly equipped and fully capable of fulfilling your needs and desires.

Chris Prentiss

#3. The world is actually a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything around you changing as well, mirroring your changes.

Chris Prentiss

#4. You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. without freedom of though there can be no such thing as wisdom and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Jack Russell

#6. People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still treating "alcoholism" as if it is the problem, when it has nothing to do with the problem. They might as well be studying "scratchism" for people who have a chronic itch.

Chris Prentiss

#7. As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.

Stephen Daldry

#8. They weren't fact. They were possibility. Nothing more, nothing less, but the force of the possibility was shattering.

Haruki Murakami

#9. I'm a really, really, smart, multi-talented almost-genius, who's very annoying.

Tyler, The Creator

#10. Take three grains of sand and put them in the middle of a vast cathedral. Now the cathedral is as full with sand as the universe is with stars...Most of the universe is empty space!

Vedang Sati

#11. But I don't just want you to get into my pants," he said. " I want you to get into my life.

Nick Wilgus

#12. I spent the rest of that day and most of the night thinking about all the hundreds of people I had met in rehabs and sober living houses and on the streets. We were all medicating our fears and our pain!

Pax Prentiss

#13. Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the way you believe things to be.

Chris Prentiss

#14. It was as if the pearly gates had just opened and God had walked out and said, "Pax, my son, I'm going to free you from your addiction. I'm going to let you see why you've been using heroin and all the other drugs for the past ten years.

Pax Prentiss

#15. It is ethanol that everyone is after when they drink alcoholic beverages. That is what gives us the euphoric feeling, and that is what all vendors of alcoholic drinks are selling.

Chris Prentiss

#16. What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose is to benefit you.

Chris Prentiss

#17. When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense.

Chris Prentiss

#18. Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing.

Chris Prentiss

#19. You have chosen to exist, and more than just exist-- you've been chosen to share in the Universal consciousness.

Chris Prentiss

#20. Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.

Euripides

#21. Innocent droplets of rain
Make almost all events
Quite natural.
(from "A Rainy Day")

Visar Zhiti

#22. I love to act and that's sort of my first love. That's what I started out doing.

Zoe Kazan

#23. If who you are and what you have is what you want, that's perfect. Keep doing what you've been doing and you'll get more of it.

Chris Prentiss

#24. By changing how you perceive things and how you act upon those perceptions, you will change your life.

Chris Prentiss

#25. There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

Mignon McLaughlin

#26. We know that you don't want to be a drunk and you don't want to be hooked on addictive drugs. You do it because you can't cope with your life without some sort of support, even if that support is damaging.

Chris Prentiss

#27. The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self-reliant and totally self- sufficient. it is perfect.

Chris Prentiss