Professor Of Pain Quotes

“...he's the kind of teacher who only accepts absences in the event of death. Even if you were almost dead, he'd still expect you to drag yourself to class with your last breath to take notes on the symbolish in Romeo and Juliet.”
― Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen

“If there were two doors, one labeled, Door to Happiness, and the other labeled, Committee to Study How to be Happy, most of us would attend the committee meeting.”
― David W Earle

“Life is simple…simple but not easy. Many lessons are required to learn to live successful and happy lives.”
― David W Earle

“embrace the suffering knowing the grieving you experience is about having something you desperately want and lost or having something you never possessed and earnestly desire. That lack you experience is the reality of life.”
― David W Earle

“I looked into the face of addiction and it terrified me!”
― David W Earle

“Humans can find many ways to hide from themselves in distractions and by being “busy.”
― David W Earle

“Before the magic of recovery, I thought a perfect weekend involved hiding from myself with all the distractions life provides.”
― David W Earle

“All wanted to escape to be happy elsewhere,but tradition tied us together …nowhere else to go.”
― David W Earle

“By changing, I could forgive myself
what a release … my burdens now lifted”
― David W Earle

“Oh, because you’re an alcoholic.” Only when I heard those words did it filter through my own denial. Only then did I gain understanding.”
― David W Earle

“Addiction is a “shitty” disease”
― David W Earle

“Crossing the Ring of Fire is..moving from the emotional shutdown of numbness through the flames of fear and entering into the healing arms of change.”
― David W Earle

“When face to face with our demons our destiny is in reach.”
― David W Earle

“Since the discovery of the fermented grape, humans have experienced the pain and the frustration of addiction.”
― David W Earle

“War on Drugs...will only be won when we point our thumbs at ourselves and ask the hard question: “How am I contributing to this problem?”
― David W Earle

“People do not build a defense around a strength but around a weakness. Regardless of the magnitude of this mighty defense, part of the addictive personality desperately wants to escape.”
― David W Earle