I did a comedy with Al Franken about his character Stuart Smalley, which was really about alcoholism and addiction and codependency. It… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
For me, addiction comes down to basically where a pattern of behaviour has developed and that pattern of behaviour is becoming a… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
“You want to be OK right now, so you trade that for having a good life in the long run. It’s a… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“This woman’s size protected her from the hurts of the world but it also imprisoned her soul. As the merry-go-round revolved, she… — David W Earle Copy Share Image
If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“I want you in the worst possible way. You’re the drug that offers me relief…that energizes me again…that soothes me…that delivers me… — Mia Asher Copy Share Image
“At the lip of a cliff, I look out over Lake Superior, through the bare branches of birches and the snow-covered branches… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“Some are filled with a compelling urge, a temptation that recycles in the mind, perhaps to become a habit, then an addiction.… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
“In any disease, say smoking-induced lung or heart disease, organs and tissues are damaged and function in pathological ways. When the brain… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Not every story has a happy ending [...], but the discoveries of science, the teachings of the heart and the revelations of… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
Remember when you said you can control it? You made one cut,You felt you needed another.So you did it. Then it got… — Jasmine Laura Copy Share Image
“May 20 Coming Out Of Isolation "We find ourselves doing and enjoying things that we never thought we would be doing." Basic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The plague of pornography is swirling about us as never before. Pornography brings a vicious wake of immorality, broken homes, and broken… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
A lot of addiction actually ends by age 30 - something like 50 percent of all addictions with the exception of tobacco… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
In love addiction that experience of: 'Oh my God, I'm in love... I feel whole, and I feel like I've known this… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
We have all learned that addiction and mental illnesses are illnesses, and I think a lot of people overlook that it is… — Poppy Delevingne Copy Share Image
And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
We're all addicts; we inhale and exhale, without air we can't live. But then, we're all different; I like to inhale C21H30O2,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I visited Amy as often as I could at the hospital. When you’re dealing with someone who’s recovering from drug addiction, you… — Mitch Winehouse Copy Share Image
Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“...introduced Doc to the miracle of morphine. From that very first shot it was as if he'd discovered the one vital ingredient… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Dependence on oil from volatile foreign markets undermines our economic security and threatens our national security. Moreover, that addiction is producing toxic… — Kevin de Leon Copy Share Image
For me, addiction never really included telling myself that everything was okay. By the time I was deep in my addictions, I… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind.… — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
“I, also, decided to get rid of the need of approval. That is a strong addiction, the need of approval, isn't it?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless. This is… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I have been tested in many ways, personally, I have beaten breast cancer, I buried a child to addiction. Professionally, you cannot… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
I talk to my kids about my mothers energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and… — Lemon Andersen Copy Share Image
Once it's established that we are a team, I can demand of you and expect you to demand of me. Life without… — Carl Whitaker Copy Share Image
“[H]ere was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered: happiness might now be… — Thomas De Quincey Copy Share Image
“But here’s the rub of addiction. By its nature, people afflicted are unable to do what, from the outside, appears to be… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
“Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
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