Richelle Mead Quotes

Bob Smith from Brooklyn is a guy who sometimes gets hung with problems and fears. Wolfman Jack is a happy-go-lucky guy who knows how to party. The challenge of my life has been letting more and more of Bob Smith go, becoming the Wolfman on an almost full-time basis, while still taking care of business.

If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to go on down until he reaches the bottom--there is no hope for him. Where could my salvation come from? How can I save myself? I cannot drink, because it makes my head ache. I never could write bad poetry. I cannot pray for strength and see anything lofty in the languor of my soul. Laziness is laziness and weakness weakness. I can find no other names for them. I am lost, I am lost; there is no doubt of that.

There are seminars that teach us how to cope with depression, sickness and relationship break down. But God wants us to overcome.

I have a problem with being a hero, but that's another problem.

If you have problems in your life, don’t assume there is something wrong with you.

Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with.

The reality is I'm not this person with this driving 'get it done' attitude.

The only one who can beat me is me.

I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference.

I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

I had turned my anxiety into my profession.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.

When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.

I need to protect myself from my own addictive impulse.

I try to focus on using my energy to change things, but there are times when I feel so bad.

I'm the only person who stands in my way, whether I finish a song or if I'm, you know, struggling. So, I see myself as my own competitor.

When I first got sober, I hadn't read anything for six or seven years. I didn't have even that much focus.

I feel like I have so much to improve on.

... if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

Even if I turned myself in, it wouldn't change anything. It wouldn't make me one of them. I knew that when I got my powers, but really I knew it before then. I learned it as a child on my first day of school, on the warm rainy streets of Bangkok, and in college. If you're different you always know it, and you can't fix it even if you want to. What do you do when you find out your heart is the wrong kind? You take what you're given, and be the hero you can be. Hero to your own cold, inverted heart.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.

Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around