“Why the addict is counting on the days of taking off addiction ... simply because he is waiting to know how long… — Mohamed Saad Copy Share Image
It's all about choices! You choose, you make the rules, not tobacco companies, not addiction — John Kehoe Copy Share Image
“Stopping to have a smoke is a time-honored tradition non-smokers can’t understand.” — Krzysztof Pacyński Copy Share Image
Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which... obsession replaces people. — Patrick Carnes Copy Share Image
Negativity is an addiction to the bleak shadow that lingers around every human form ... you can transfigure negativity by turning it… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Don't judge addicts. They don't plan to be addicted. They don't, as a child, say hey! I wanna be a junkie when… — Kylee Copy Share Image
You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“Funny how addiction was socially acceptable—even a status symbol—when it made people extroverts rather than introverts” — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
“Once you have known awareness, nothing is worth it-- you have known the greatest bliss of life. Then, suddenly, many things simply… — Osho Copy Share Image
Addiction is a chronic disease of the brain and it's one that we have to treat the way we would any other… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
“third choice was to strike off toward some new projection—a new job, a better (different) relationship, a seductive ideology, or sometimes to… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
One of the problems we have is that we cannot just be content to admire and enjoy, we have to possess and… — Joseph Girzone Copy Share Image
“We have to be diligent in seeking after God, emotionally attached and consciously aware of Him at all times. The desire for… — Etta Dale Hornsteiner Copy Share Image
When I was Surgeon General, I spent a lot of time talking to people in living rooms and town halls all across… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
When you're first in love with somebody, and it's not true love, it's borderline obsession, it's kind of like an addiction. You… — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
“This was a high that could never be duplicated. It was a high more dangerous to a man's soul than any found… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
To limit yourself to a label of "alcoholic" is masochistic and false if you have awakened a deeper spiritual identity within and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“If complex behavior such as addiction is a chronic and relapsing brain disease (and it is complex, because it involves not just… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“The reason the program is so successful is because alcoholics help other alcoholics. I've never met a Normie (our lingo for a… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
“Addictions, even as they resemble normal human yearnings, are more about desire than attainment. In the addicted mode, the emotional charge is… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“In fact, scholars have noted that many trauma survivors appear at times even to seek out their further traumatization through various self-destructive… — Paul Frewen Copy Share Image
“I felt so lost in my addiction, I believed that no one was capable of understanding or helping me. I thought I… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Lots of people look for happiness through sensations, whether it's through sex, the taste of food, the sound of music, the sensations… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Addiction is not a moral defect, and to suggest that does a great disservice to people suffering with this disorder.” — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
I am not your victim because you are not a predator any more than a bottle of scotch stalks an alcoholic. — Sue William Silverman Copy Share Image
All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nothing is wrong with me, Dan. Whats wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on… — Martin Hopkins Copy Share Image
You know, we think about addiction as a morally reprehensible choice, but addicts act crazy because, in a way, that they are. — David Sheff Copy Share Image
It's been one of the greatest challenges that ever came along in my life; it was one of the more difficult things… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Racism is still America's greatest addiction. I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God. — Michael Pfleger Copy Share Image
We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically. — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it’s going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it’s going poorly. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“she said, “I swear, I put something in my mouth one time, and I’m addicted. I think I have oral fixation issues.” — Alannah Lynne Copy Share Image
We can and we must do better as prolonged recovery is now an achievable result of comprehensive addiction treatment. — Stephen J. Pasierb Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will… — Virgil Miller Newton Copy Share Image
