“I think I may have an addiction. A sex-maniac beast has awoken, and I am a horny mess nearly all the time.… — Jessica Park 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
“The next day we were all shooting up. "Jeez. Look at the size of the cotton he just threw in the spoon."… — Carl-John X Veraja 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
Right now one in three teenagers meets the medical criteria for addiction, which is scary. I'm so driven because when I walked… — Kristen Johnston Copy Share Image
Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“I knew this was a critically important finding in my research, so I spent several hundred interviews trying to better understand the… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Any passion can become an addiction; but then how to distinguish between the two? The central question is: who’s in charge, the… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
It is unacceptable that the way we have treated people who have become addicted in the past is by throwing them in… — Perri Peltz Copy Share Image
Although Grandma's passion had led me to the power of food, not all of her recipes were healthy. I kept her gusto… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
SHE SAID - You were my drug of choice; my addiction. Though I knew you were bad for me, I couldn't quit.… — Poetic Style Copy Share Image
By the Reagan era, the 'culture of poverty' had become a cornerstone of conservative ideology: poverty was caused not by low wages… — Barbara Ehrenreich 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
“The first step is to admit you’re powerless. You have an addiction, and you can’t stop. The first step is to tell… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you're to the point where you're trying to overcome that means you're at the point where you've admitted that you have… — Ryan Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The treatment must fit the malady and the malady is not alcoholism or addiction, or addictive drugs and alcohol. Once the correct… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“As long as one is escaping from loneliness, there is no essential difference between the worship of God and addiction to alcohol.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun. You know there's an alternative to… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
“Why do we despise, ostracize and punish the drug addict when as a social collective we share the same blindness and engage… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Addicts don't like when you tell them they are all the same. Of course not. Who would? But to me, addicts are… — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
“What a lot of people use the internet for is really about meeting their attachment needs. So on Facebook, what do people… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“There's a peculiar thing that happens every time you get clean. You go through this sensation of rebirth. There's something intoxicating about… — Anthony Keidis Copy Share Image
I went public with the alcoholism, very early on... the early '70s. Mercedes McCambridge, the actress, I think was the first recognizable… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“The hardcore drug addicts that I treat, are, without exception, people who have had extraordinarily difficult lives. The commonality is childhood abuse.… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“An imagined pleasure is never really the pleasure, but an imagined pain, in a very real sense, is the pain, because so… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Addiction is in fact a kind of embodied cultural critique of modernity and the addict a kind of unwitting modern prophet. The… — Kent Dunnington Copy Share Image
“to the world, and there is no more powerful expression of that relatedness than love, or true responsiveness to another person. The… — Stanton Peele Copy Share Image
We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
“Sure, genetics do play a role in alcholism. You're more likely to be an alcoholic if one or both of your parents… — Gaby Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Sometimes… Sometimes doubt is the opposite of faith, but sometimes doubt can be a pathway to faith. Sometimes weakness is the opposite… — David W. Jones Copy Share Image
“What American would not want truthful and complete information about every product sold in the United States so that we can be… — Earl Chinnici Copy Share Image
If you're not filled back up quickly, you might collapse like a birthday balloon". I guess that's why acting is so addictive.… — Matthew Jacobs Copy Share Image
The moment we shake our addiction to narrative and give up our strong-headed intent that language must say something "meaningful," we open… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“He also found himself increasingly resentful of the “tally system” that AA uses to measure sobriety: every time he “slipped” and had… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
