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“I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of death from being a total surprise.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself”
Mark Twain
“Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution.”
“The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster”
Oscar Wilde
“If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.”
Swami Vivekananda
“Only after disaster can we be ressurected.”
“The only aspect of our travels that is interesting to others is disaster.”
Martha Gellman
“We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.”
Robert Fulghum
“Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.”
Anne Wilson Schaef
