InspiringQuotes

Addiction Quotes:

Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.

- Aaron Neville

topic: Addiction, Rehab

Quotation Zig Ziglar You don t have to be great to start but Quotes

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

topic: People, Perfect, Addiction, Drug Addict, Drug Addiction

quote every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own eckhart tolle Quotes

Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as ***** or crack cocaine...

topic: Powerful, Addiction, Cracks

Quotation Robert Louis Stevenson Don t judge each day by the harvest you reap Quotes

It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Sex, Evil, Addiction, Lust For Power

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

source: Alice Miller (2008). “Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth”, p.126, Basic Books

topic: Addiction, Plight, Language, Addiction Recovery, Addicts In Recovery

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

topic: Addiction, This Generation, Generations, Generation Gap

(UGO, about Crank) I see the addiction to video games because you want to win them and it's just hard enough so you'd want to keep playing it over and over to try to figure it out. I definitely feel the movie is like a game at times but I'm not a huge videogame lover.

topic: Winning, Games, Addiction, Videogame

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

topic: Addiction, Doe, Needs, Opium, Reverie

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

topic: Addiction, Drug, Vices, Keeping A Journal, Opium

Everyone has an addiction, mine happens to be you.

- Andre Benjamin

topic: Addiction, Hip Hop

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.

- Andrew Jackson

topic: Blessing, Addiction, Wish

Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.

topic: Views, Addiction, Drug, Contending, Illiteracy

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

topic: Drinking, People, Addiction, Columnists, Drinking Alcohol

Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we're selling this deadly stuff anyway?

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Talking, Addiction, Smoking, Conundrums

I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.

- Anthony Hopkins

topic: Addiction, Hell, Demon

It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.

- Anthony Kiedis

topic: Fun, People, Addiction

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.

- Armistead Maupin

topic: People, Addiction, Drug, Drug Addict, Drug Addiction

His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Doors, Practice, Addiction, Tenants, Revolver

Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything.

- Ashly Lorenzana

topic: Addiction, Drug

I can pretty much guarantee that you will at some point find yourself doing something that at one point you swore you'd never do. You'll do it for the sake of getting high, either directly or indirectly. Trust me. It will happen. You might think you know yourself better than anyone, but you have yet to become acquainted with your addiction. It will introduce itself in ways that you never thought were possible.

- Ashly Lorenzana

topic: Thinking, Addiction, Finding Yourself

While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a family and lead to addiction later in life. Because, how would you know when to stop? How could you stop? An entire city could be built with a Habitrail.

- Augusten Burroughs

topic: Cities, Addiction, Spheres

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

topic: Happiness, Time, Addiction, States Of Consciousness, Principles And Values

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

topic: Addiction, Desire

To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master.

topic: Oil, Our Generation, Addiction

All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.

- Barbara De Angelis

topic: Addiction, Common, Moments

By the Reagan era, the 'culture of poverty' had become a cornerstone of conservative ideology: poverty was caused not by low wages or a lack of jobs but by bad attitudes and faulty lifestyles. The poor were dissolute, promiscuous, prone to addiction and crime, unable to 'defer gratification' or possibly even set an alarm clock. The last thing they could be trusted with was money.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

topic: Jobs, Attitude, Addiction, Promiscuous, Alarm Clocks

No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

- Barnaby Keeney

topic: Successful, Men, Addiction, Inspirational Drug Recovery, Inspirational Recovery

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

topic: Children, Addiction, Abuse, Overeating, Abuse And Violence

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

- Ben Nicholson

topic: Addiction, Ecstatic

If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.

- Benjamin Alire Saenz

source: Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2013). “Last Night I Sang to the Monster”, p.237, Cinco Puntos Press

topic: Addiction, Quitting, Lifetime

To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.

- Bernard Emond

topic: Addiction, Tests, Limits, Life Wisdom, Our Dreams

I don't drink or do any drugs. I never have and I never will. I don't need them. I'm a black woman from the land of the free, home of the brave, and I figure I don't need another illusion.

- Bertice Berry

topic: Home, Land, Addiction, Land Of The Free

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Philosophy, Addiction, Progress, Obstinate

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Addiction, Income, Habit

I have an addiction to caffeine.

topic: Addiction, Caffeine

Heroin may be bad, but it sure as hell hasn't hurt my CD collection.

topic: Hurt, Cds, Addiction

There's 1,000 ways into addiction 1,000 ways out.

topic: Addiction, Way

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Addiction, Limits, Life Wisdom

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

topic: Marijuana, Addiction, Herbs, Jamaican Music, Stoners

At a time of record energy prices, when we are trying to break the very addiction the president talked about in his speech, it does not make any sense to cut funding for energy efficiency programs and research.

topic: Cutting, Addiction, Trying, Energy Efficiency

One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.

- Brendan Behan

topic: Addiction, Drink, Enough, Alcoholism, Irish Drinking

Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.

topic: Differences, Addiction, Anxiety, Hamper, Perfectionism

I think the scariest addiction on this planet is to alcohol. Because alcohol is a very addictive drug, and it ruins families, it ruins relationships. And it is socially acceptable, and it is easy to find. Controlled substances, other drugs are more difficult to get, and it's a crime to... to buy them. But alcohol is everywhere. And if you are unfortunate enough to become addicted to it, it can be disastrous. And there is still a stigma attached to alcohol addiction, or addiction in general. It is perceived as... an addict is perceived as somebody of weak moral fiber

topic: Thinking, Addiction, Alcohol, Moral Fiber

Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.

- Calvin Miller

source: Calvin Miller (2010). “Life Is Mostly Edges: A Memoir”, p.227, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Religious, Flames, Addiction, Intoxicated

Sex addiction is a subject that should be discussed

- Carey Mulligan

topic: Sex, Addiction, Should, Sex Addiction

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

topic: Drinking, Addiction, Funny Sarcastic, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Morphine

So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in a thousand different forms. The diet form, the romance form, the addiction form, the overriding hunger for this purchase or that job, this relationship or that one. Hunger may be insatiable by nature, it may be fathomless, but our will to fill it, our often blind tenacity in the face of it, can be extraordinary.

- Caroline Knapp

topic: Jobs, Addiction, Romance

I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.

- Carrie Fisher

topic: Pain, Addiction, Mind

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.

- Carrie Fisher

topic: Mean, Emotional, Addiction

Impossible loves. I am very much afraid they can become an addiction.

- Cesare Borgia

topic: Addiction, Impossible, Impossible Love

If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book.

- Charles Adams

topic: Book, Writing, Addiction

Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.

- Charles Eisenstein

source: Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.2, North Atlantic Books

topic: Procrastination, Self, Addiction, Chronic Fatigue, Self Sabotage

A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to be improved.

- Charles Ferguson

topic: People, Justice, Addiction

The only thing I'm addicted to right now is winning.

- Charlie Sheen

source: "Charlie Sheen Sets His Sights on Sox". Boston Dirt Dogs Interview, bostondirtdogs.boston.com. March 8, 2011.

topic: Winning, Addiction, Alcoholics Anonymous, Warlocks

Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just wasn't fun anymore. The drugs had become a part of my routine. Something to wake me up. Something to help me sleep. Something to calm my nerves. There was a time when I was able to wake up, go to sleep, and have fun without a pill or a line to help me function. These days it felt like I might have a nervous breakdown if I didn't have them.

- Cherie Currie

topic: Fun, Sleep, Addiction, Nervous Breakdown

Marijuana addiction is a serious problem

- Chris Christie

topic: Marijuana, Addiction, Serious

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

topic: War, Addiction, Drug, Hurt Locker

I have an addictive personality. Sport is my drug of choice these days. It's one of the best drugs there is. It keeps you fit and healthy, even if, in the case of ironman, it pushes your body to the limit. The word "addiction" comes with negative connotations, but it doesn't have to be a damaging impulse. It's all about channeling your craving into something positive.

- Chrissie Wellington

topic: Motivational, Sports, Addiction, Ironman, Channeling

It's a good addition. There are so many bad addictions. Better be addicted to shoes than something else

- Christian Louboutin

topic: Shoes, Addiction

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

- Christopher Lasch

topic: Addiction, Drug, Our Society, Drug Addict, Drug Addiction

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

- Christopher Lasch

topic: Addiction, Ownership, Mass, Mass Consumption

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

- Christopher Lasch

source: Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.521, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Media, Addiction, Belief, Mass Media

I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important

- Christopher Meloni

topic: Mean, Addiction, Important

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Writing, Addiction, Literature

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Giving Up, Addiction, Helping

When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Sadness, Worry, Addiction

Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?

- Clifford Stoll

topic: Addiction, Drug, Computer, Drug Addict, Drug Addiction

I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't do drugs. My addiction is wrestling.

topic: Wrestling, Addiction, Drug

Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.

- Colin Farrell

topic: Grateful, Years, Addiction

Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes.

- Colman McCarthy

topic: Oil, America, Addiction

I've seen firsthand the terrible consequences of drug abuse. My heart is with all who suffer from addiction and the terrible consequences for their families.

topic: Heart, Addiction, Drug, Drug Abuse

Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will be the same except you won't have to worry about rent or mortgages or fashionable clothes. You will be released from sexual obsessions. You will not have drug addictions. You will not need alcohol. You will not have to worry about cellulite or cigarettes or cancer or AIDS or venereal disease. You will be free.

- Cookie Mueller

source: Cookie Mueller (1997). “Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller”, Serpent's Tail

topic: Cancer, Clothes, Addiction, Cellulite, Fashionable Clothes

My addiction has always been beautiful women, being surrounded by them.

- Corey Feldman

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 2012.

topic: Beautiful, Addiction, Beautiful Women

I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything. I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently.

topic: Mean, Thinking, Addiction, Support Groups

Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

topic: Justice, Addiction, And Love, Superficial Things, Justice Truth

At every stage, addiction is driven by one of the most powerful, mysterious, and vital forces of human existence. What drives addiction is longing--a longing not just of brain, belly, or loins but finally of the heart.

- Cornelius Plantinga

topic: Powerful, Heart, Addiction

Because they are human beings, addicts long for wholeness, for fulfillment, and for the final good that believers call God. Like all idolatries, addiction taps this vital spiritual force and draws off its energies to objects and processes that drain the addict instead of fulfilling him.

- Cornelius Plantinga

topic: Spiritual, Addiction, Long

Once you've been overweight you never want to be overweight again, so you keep going, keep going, like for any addiction. Health can be an addiction, it doesn't have to be drugs or alcohol.

source: Source: www.buzzfeed.com

topic: Addiction, Alcohol, Drug

I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Recovery, Thinking, Addiction, Killing Myself, Drug Addiction Recovery

Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Recovery, Addiction, Alcohol

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

topic: Addiction, Rehab, Action

Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope.

- Dan B. Allender

topic: Addiction

I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.

source: "Inside Story: the Wit and Wisdom of Dan Rather". www.independent.co.uk. November 29, 2004.

topic: Addiction, Cracks, News, Daily News

If you believe our president, a former oil businessman, is going to end our addiction to oil, shame on all of us.

topic: Believe, Oil, Addiction

Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Heart, Addiction

End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.

topic: Addiction, Waiting, Police

A Rescuer isn't always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholism-all the ways we numb out-can rescue the Victim from feeling his or her own feelings.

- David Emerald Womeldorff

topic: Addiction, Alcohol, Drug

Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day,akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s, ...It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society and...that's the young and the poor.

- David Robertson

source: "Study: Internet gambling stakes are high". www.cnn.com. March 17, 2002.

topic: Teenage, Gambling, Addiction, Alcohol Abuse

You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit.

topic: Long, Addiction, Enough

Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.

source: David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Caring, Addiction, Addict

This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic--has contributed to the escalation of use and has hampered treatment more than any single other factor.

topic: Kids, Addiction, Drug, Escalation

Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything....I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate....It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs....

topic: Weekend, Marijuana, Addiction

Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.

topic: Simple, Addiction, Inner Peace

I knew it was really, really popular when my granny told me she watched it, and was addicted. When your granny is interested, you know you're on to a winner.

- Davina McCall

topic: Addiction, Winner, Granny, Really Popular

I need those nukes, the chief said. I need them, I need them right now. I don't want to be an enabler, sir. I'd rather get you into a twelve step program to help you break this addiction.

topic: Addiction, Twelve, Needs, Enablers, Nukes

Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Pain, Memories, Addiction, Fond Memories, Painful Memories

You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.

- Dennis Farina

topic: Thinking, Addiction, Want, Thinking Differently

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

- Dennis Weaver

topic: Oil, Addiction, Environmental, Environmental Problems, Fossil Fuel

We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow.

topic: Addiction, Fuel, Fossils

There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life.

- Doug Stanhope

source: "Before Turning the Gun on Himself". Comedy album by Doug Stanhope, 2012.

topic: Funny, Addiction, Enjoy, Pain In Life

The very wealthy and the very famous have a much closer affinity with the indigent street person than with the rest of us. There's the narcissism, the addiction, even the outlandish dress. Often they don't put great value in relationships.

topic: Success, Addiction, Dresses, Very Famous, Great Value

Christopher Kennedy Lawford's new book Recover to Live will be a force with the power to educate as well as motivate transformational personal change.Â Recover to Live may alter the way broader society looks at the disease of addiction and those who are suffering from it.

topic: Book, Addiction, Suffering, Personal Change, New Books

Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.

- Earl Sweatshirt

topic: Real, Color, Addiction

Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Pain, Addiction, Ends, Power Of Now Book, Illegal Drugs

Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to - alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person - you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Pain, Moving, Addiction, Power Of Now Book, Illegal Drugs

Drugs are a carnival in hell.

topic: Addiction, Drug, Hell, Carnivals

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

- Edward Teller

topic: Addiction, Accepted, Secrecy

She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.

- Ellen Burstyn

topic: Addiction, Feelings, Way

Addiction is rarely conquered alone.

- Ellen Hopkins

topic: Addiction

It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you.

- Ellen Hopkins

source: Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Identical”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mean, Thinking, Addiction, Killing It

I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.

source: "Paris in Love: A Memoir". Book by Eloisa James, April 3, 2012.

topic: Christmas, Addiction, Glitter, Christmas Season

Exercise is like an addiction. Once you're in it, you feel like your body needs it.

topic: Fitness, Exercise, Addiction, Exercise Health

The work became like the drug addiction, the clothes, anything in my life. It became - it's become an addiction. I'm addicted to working.

topic: Clothes, Addiction, Drug

Onstage it was always comfortable for me because that's where I felt at home. Offstage it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage and unfortunately, my shyness and my inability to communicate and really have great conversations or be part of the gang - in inverted commas - led me to the drug addiction, which, you know, blighted my life for 16 years because I thought by doing that it would make me join in.

topic: Home, Years, Addiction, Inability To Communicate

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

- Emile M. Cioran

topic: Ambition, Addiction, Drug

I dwell in possibility.

- Emily Dickinson

source: "I dwell in possibility" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

topic: Inspirational, Recovery, Addiction, Thinking Flexibly

Yes, I have patterns of love addiction. But I'm a woman. Of course I do.

topic: Addiction, Patterns

I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me.

topic: Thinking, Addiction, Soul

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

source: Eric Avery @ericavery, twitter.com. March 1, 2010.

topic: Regret, Addiction, Relief

Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken.

topic: Addiction, Experts, Watches, Graphs

[On her morphine addiction:] I was meant to 'taper off.' At times I felt such pains as must afflict a creature while a bigger beast eats and claws at its middle. God-awful things were hiding underneath my bed, and it was no use telling me they were not there - I knew they were, and felt their dreadful ever-changing shapes.

- Evalyn Walsh McLean

topic: Pain, Addiction, Bed, Morphine

Ryan took him out of Betty Ford after Redmond wanted to leave because he met a girl there. The girl was a ***** addict. She was the one who introduced him to the stuff.

- Farrah Fawcett

topic: Girl, Addiction, Stuff

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

topic: Addiction, Making Money, Shakes

It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with.

source: "Celebrities Who Have Battled Addiction", www.foxnews.com. September 2006.

topic: Addiction, Break, Hardest

I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.

- Fisher Stevens

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Summer, Addiction, Bali

We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel.

topic: Addiction, Comfort, Wealth

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

- Francis Drake

source: Dispatch to Sir Francis Walsingham, 17 May 1587, in 'Navy Records Society' vol. 11 (1898) p.134

topic: Yield, Addiction, Matter, Uncharted

Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

- Francis Kelley

topic: Men, Addiction, Action, Life Wisdom

My biggest addictions have been chocolate cake, mashed potatoes, and butter sandwiches.

source: "Loveline" with Adam Carolla and Dr Drew, www.youtube.com. April 4, 2005.

topic: Cake, Addiction, Chocolate, Chocolate Cake, Mashed Potatoes

Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.

topic: Addiction, Drug, Humanity

Not why the addiction, but why the pain.

topic: Pain, Recovery, Addiction

It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

topic: Addiction, Drug, Relief

If your addiction lingers, ask yourself if you really want to release it, because in your heart you do not.

topic: Heart, Addiction, Want

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

source: Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

topic: Addiction, Admire

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

- George Carlin

topic: Mean, Addiction, Monkeys

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can.

- George Matthew Adams

topic: Thinking, Addiction, Accomplish, Life Wisdom, Place In Life

Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.

- Georges Bataille

topic: Giving Up, Addiction, Ends

Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.

source: Gerald G. May (2009). “Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions”, p.10, Harper Collins

topic: Addiction, Care, Masters

Having observed the forces of all things natural and celestial and having examined by painstaking investigation the sympathy among those things, brings into the open powers hidden and stored away in nature; thus, magic links lower things (as if they were magical enticements) to the gifts of higher things...so that astonishing miracles thereby occur.

- Giambattista della Porta

topic: Inspiration, Addiction, Miracle, Enticement

Once you get that addiction of realizing what you can do, you want to take that to the next level.

topic: Mma, Addiction, Next Level

It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.

- Giuseppe Antonio Borgese

topic: Addiction

Life compulsively dangled the possibility of life. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot.

topic: Life, Addiction, Twists

Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!

topic: Pain, Addiction, Strange

Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.

- Harold Rosenberg

topic: Addiction, Revolution, Permanence

Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction.

topic: Money, Addiction, Taste, Acquired Taste

Anybody can do anything that he imagines.

topic: Addiction, Imagine, Life Wisdom

Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular" medical literature. I fear to hope that its recognition spells progress.

- Herbert M. Shelton

topic: Health, Addiction, Progress

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

topic: Addiction, Done, Half

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Men, Addiction, Depth

Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.

- Iain Duncan Smith

source: "Together we can beat the gangs" by Iain Duncan Smith, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2011.

topic: Home, School, Addiction, Gang Members, Neighbourhoods

Now there is apparently a causal link between ***** addiction and vegetarianism.

topic: Vegetarianism, Addiction, Links, Heroin Addiction

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

source: Tools for Conviviality ch. 3 (1973)

topic: Two, Envy, Addiction, Overconsumption, Consumer Culture

Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically harmless but psychically enslaving. A community can choose between Methadone and "cold turkey"-between maintaining its addiction to alien energy and kicking it in painful cramps-but no society can have a population that is hooked on progressively larger numbers of energy slaves and whose members are also autonomously active.

topic: Turkeys, Numbers, Addiction, Methadone, Kicking It

We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified, drug addictions, personalities, it just became too much.

- Izzy Stradlin

topic: Addiction, Personality, Drug

The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.

topic: Goal, Addiction, Life Wisdom

Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.

topic: Oil, Addiction, Facts

He who believes is strong. Strong convictions precede great actions.

- James Freeman Clarke

topic: Strong, Believe, Addiction

Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests. Why? You tell me. I guess maybe we're smart enough to have figured out how shitty things are and we decide addiction is the only way to deal with it.

topic: Smart, Average, Addiction, Above Average

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.

- James Harvey Robinson

topic: Lying, Addiction, Infinite, Life Wisdom

Novel writing is like ***** addiction; it takes everything you've got.

- James N. Frey

topic: Writing, Addiction, Heroin

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

- James Russell Lowell

source: James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.416

topic: Addiction, Each Day, World

I was a functional addict.

topic: Addiction, Addict

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

- Jamie Lee Curtis

topic: Two, Addiction, Abuse, Substance Abuse, Recovering

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

- Jamie Lee Curtis

topic: Addiction, Alcoholics, Addict

I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.

- Janice Dickinson

topic: Addiction, Horrible, Former

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.

topic: Oil, Addiction, Giving

We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

topic: Oil, Addiction, United States, Arabian

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Laughing, Addiction, People, Losing Control

If you are aware of your weaknesses and are constantly learning, your potential is virtually limitless.

topic: Addiction, Weakness, Limitless, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Drug Recovery

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

topic: Addiction, Body, Alcohol Addiction, Overcoming Addiction

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

topic: Teaching, Recovery, Addiction

Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.

- Jean Kilbourne

topic: Addiction, Emptiness, Emptiness Inside, Addicts In Recovery

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Book, Fate, Addiction, Stamp Collecting

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

- Jeanne Moreau

topic: People, Addiction, Addict

She had her addictions and one of them was reading.

- Jeannette Walls

topic: Reading, Addiction

Drugs are a bad habit, so why do it? Because, said Dimple, it isn't the ***** that we're addicted to, it's the drama of the life, the chaos of it, that's the real addiction and we never get over it; and because when you come down to it, the high life, that is, the intoxicated life, is the best of the limited options offered.

topic: Drama, Real, Addiction, Intoxicated, Dimples

Running is my addiction. It's always present. I'm constantly thinking about my next run.

topic: Running, Thinking, Addiction, Constantly Thinking

The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop.

- Jeffrey Bernard

topic: Drinking, Addiction, Impossible, Stop Drinking

The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.

- Jeremy Collier

source: Jeremy Collier (1698). “A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage; Together with the Sense of Antiquity Upon this Argument. 2. Ed”, p.5

topic: Addiction, Abuse, Use

Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat.

topic: Oil, Addiction, Effort, Foreign Oil

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

topic: Hippie, Addiction, Drug

As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.

topic: Recovery, Addiction, Funny Sarcastic, Drug Addiction

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

source: United States of America Congressional Record Proceedings and Debates of the 106th Congress First Session Vol 145- Part 10, p. 14054, June 1999.

topic: Aggravation, Numbers, Addiction, Public Health, Health Problems

Show business can be an addiction. ... An audience would laugh at me one night, and I would chase that high for another three months.

topic: Night, Laughing, Addiction

A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what the activity.

topic: Giving Up, Addiction, People

So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.

source: "The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2015.

topic: Opposites, Addiction, Sobriety, Human Connection

Shame is the root of all addictions.

- John Bradshaw

topic: Roots, Addiction, Shame

Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

topic: Reality, Self, Addiction, Self Pity, Pharmaceutical

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

source: Twitter post from Jul 14, 2016

topic: Recovery, Years, Addiction

"We have tax revenue that's going to allow us to look in a much more comprehensive way at intervening in addiction."

- John Hickenlooper

topic: Marijuana, Addiction, Looks, Intervening, Comprehensive

It's all about choices! You choose, you make the rules, not tobacco companies, not addiction

topic: Encouragement, Addiction, Choices

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

topic: Addiction, Sober, Recovering

Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.

topic: Addiction, Beast

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

- Jonathan Lethem

topic: Addiction, Trying, Subculture

Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way.

- Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

topic: Past, Years, Addiction, Substance Abuse

Were Moses to go up Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd bring down with him would be aspirin and Prozac.

- Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

topic: Two, Addiction, Would Be, Sinai, Prozac

There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Inspiration, Addiction, Important, Self Transformation

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Recovery, Addiction, Fruit, Blame Someone, Blaming Yourself

Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Inspiration, Thinking, Addiction, Positive Change, Think Positive

One of the problems we have is that we cannot just be content to admire and enjoy, we have to possess and feel we own what we see. That can become for many of us an addiction which adds a complication to our life and takes away our peace of mind. Craving things becomes after a while a serious distraction and an obsession.

- Joseph Girzone

topic: Addiction, Mind, Serious

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