“Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.”
"If I never see you again I will always carry you inside, outside; on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains."
- Charles Bukowski
Love
"I want to be with you. It's as simple and as complicated as that."
- Charles Bukowski
Love
"I want to be with you. It’s as simple and as complicated as that."
- Charles Bukowski
Love
""I want to be with you. It's as simple and as complicated as that.""
- Charles Bukowski
Love
"Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right."
- Charles Bukowski
Awareness
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity