The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this civilization was founded on God's road map.
At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.
Nothing in my life is going right, right now and there's got to be a reason for that. I think that God is trying to get my attention to tell me that this is going to end very, very badly if I don't walk away from it.
When swimming into a dark tunnel,there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back.your choice is to swim forward into the unknown....and pray for an exit
'Breaking Bad' - I've heard that question phrased in many directions, and it always means the same thing. It's when someone can't... when a decent person can't take it any more. They just kind of turn and go in the opposite direction.
If you've ever found yourself pushed to the limits of your tolerance... you find yourself doing some things that, from the outside, can be seen as quite insane.
In the most important areas, as individuals and countries, we don't change our behavior until we have our backs to the wall.
When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.
Rock bottom; that's a fishing term.
It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight.
I think the West is in a low point we haven't seen since the 1930s.
At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over.
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.
Too often, a problem is allowed to fester until it reaches a crisis point... and the American people are left asking the question: what went wrong and why?
There comes a time in every man's life when he wakes up drunk on the toilet and begins to doubt the choices he has made. and when that time comes at least twice a day, every day. something needs to be done.
Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.
Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn.
Problems arise when we go through life relying too much or too little on particular traits, which, in turn, can lead to a crisis.
There comes a moment... When imagination gives out and Reality leaps forth. It is frightful!
We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves.
there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed
Sometimes the only way to become grounded is to hit bottom.
Maybe it's time to go back 2,000 years for a spiritual renaissance. If not, our days may be numbered and a terrible implosion is coming. There is no more middle ground. It is one or the other.
The indictment, in a lot of ways, that was the turning point.
