“People often talk about crawling into the rooms of recovery on their knees, but when I turned to twelve-step for the second… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Addiction is a crazy disease. It's a progressive disease when it's not dealt with; it don't care who it takes, and it… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Here’s a simple test to check and see if you have surrendered or if you are still struggling with control. When you… — Toni Sorenson Copy Share Image
“Join us. Play the game. It will bring you an untold number of rewards and you will finally have some direction and… — Martin Hopkins Copy Share Image
“People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
I'm always working on something. Addiction never gets any credit, always talked about as a total liability, and I'll admit that most… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
We often say 'love' when we really mean, and are acting out, an addiction-a sterile, ingrown dependency relationship, with another person serving… — Stanton Peele Copy Share Image
“It was becoming evident to me that addiction is addiction is addiction—that all the ways in which people binge, hoard, numb, act… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I was diagnosed with ADHD in my mid fifties and I was given Ritalin and Dexedrine. These are stimulant medications. They elevate… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling — meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I have an addictive personality. Sport is my drug of choice these days. It's one of the best drugs there is. It… — Chrissie Wellington Copy Share Image
“Just because something is addictive doesn't mean that you will get addicted to it. But . . . if your stomach ties… — Ethlie Ann Vare Copy Share Image
“YANNI “JOHNNY” BACOLAS: I would always tell him, “Layne [Staley], why don’t you take off, go to some deserted island, hire the… — greg prato Copy Share Image
Onstage it was always comfortable for me because that's where I felt at home. Offstage it was a different situation. I was… — Elton John Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
I also had my own addiction to cocaine and heroin in my 20s. I knew that it was driven not by the… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Anybody can say 'I do' at the altar; the hard part is saying 'I do' every day thereafter. Anybody can set a… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
“People are the biggest drug addiction in the world, and I mean that quite literally. Take any single substance abuse problem in… — Chad Eastham Copy Share Image
Addiction might be redefined not as a character flaw but as a "biochemical deficit management." Our emotional habits will become an accepted… — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
“We're all princes and princesses, at 5, 50, or 100! It's never too late, we're never too old to rock the world… — Pamela Taeuffer Copy Share Image
In my family and in my community, I see people struggling with drug addiction, with poverty and the effects of generational poverty;… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
As you feel increasingly comfortable around your friends, I think it's more than fine to share the basic details of your heroin… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
One way we could describe the struggle of life would be to say it is a battle between agency and addiction. Agency… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
And she gon' give it up cause she know I might like it She gon' give it up cause she know I… — The Weeknd Copy Share Image
With 1 million square miles of the Arctic melting unexpectedly this summer, these are warning signs that we have to act and… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
I don't have, you know, an 'overcoming addiction' story, other than the guitar itself, and I haven't overcome that. I don't have… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
“We all know the indignities to which enslaved humans will submit themselves in order to satisfy their addictions, whether for narcotics, alcohol,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of addictions, and I've got every single one. If you set me in front of anything, I will… — Andy Dick Copy Share Image
His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
We can see in retrospect that criminalizing the consumption of alcohol proves not to be the solution to the very real problem… — Glenn Loury Copy Share Image
I played basketball at Kentucky in 1986-87 and '87-88 and enjoyed a 12-year NBA career. After multiple injuries and seven surgeries, I… — Rex Chapman Copy Share Image
I carry a strong anti-drug message, and it's important young people especially hear a "real" story about addiction and how it affects… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Too much of my family has messed with drugs. Addiction might be in my genes, so I ain't never tryin' it. It's… — Edgerrin James Copy Share Image
“Stinking thinking” is the universal addiction. Substance addictions like alcohol and drugs are merely the most visible form of addiction, but actually… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
.. word-sniffing ... is an addiction, like glueor snowsniffing in a somewhatless destructive way, physically if not economically… As an addict... I… — MFK Fisher Copy Share Image
Anyone who's ever had a loved one go through addiction will know just how devastating it can be and how tough it… — Declan Donnelly Copy Share Image
We always fear to speak straight and exactly what says our heart but if we do it once, trust me, it gives… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“Let me state this in the clearest terms possible: The problem of drug use is not solved with drugs!” he stated. “Drug… — Jorge Mario Bergoglio Pope Francis Copy Share Image
![“YANNI “JOHNNY” BACOLAS: I would always tell him, “Layne [Staley], why don’t you take off, go to some deserted island, hire the best counselors, and just kick this shit? Go for six months if you have to.” And his rebuttal was, “Johnny, I have celebrity status and I have a lot of money. I could fly…” quote by greg prato](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d72/greg-prato-44887_addiction_yanni-johnny-bacolas-i-would-always-tell_1060471.jpg)
