“The empires collapsed to rubble. Skyscrapers dragged down to the ground. It was chaos. I could smell the end. It smells of… — Moonshine Noire Copy Share Image
Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not… — Ken Keyes Jr 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
“Peer-reviewed studies peg the success rate of AA somewhere between 5 and 10 percent. That is, about one of every fifteen people… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“I take opioids to treat chronic pain. Stigmatizing them will harm me.” — Sonya Huber Copy Share Image
I have an addictive personality myself and one of the things I've learned is, you're always in recovery. Part of my healing… — Susan Shapiro Copy Share Image
“want to be OK right now, so you trade that for having a good life in the long run. It’s a bad… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
I trust my recovering peers completely. I'll occasionally look sideways at them because they're addicts but it would break my heart and… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
Doing things with serious consequences, whether it's death or seriously mangling myself, puts me in a hyper-aware state, and has become somewhat… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
“But Tilo had crept up on him, and become a kind of compulsion, an addiction almost. Addiction has its own mnemonics –… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened… — William S. Burroughs 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
Every day is a fresh beginning. Every morn is the world made anew. — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey Copy Share Image
“And finally the glass that contains and spills this stuff continually while the drinker hunches before it, while the bartender gathers up… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
The addiction isn't your problem - it is what you use to cope with your problem. — Roy Nelson Copy Share Image
An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us. — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
Music is my addiction, one that doesn't hurt my body, mind, or ruin my relationships with family or any form relationship. — Patiencw Copy Share Image
It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
Fear is a nature human emotion, but giving into it is putting it on a pedestal and giving it a place in… — Ryan Tue Allen Copy Share Image
It's just such an addictive sport. Only now I can understand why ex-fighters come back. That addiction helps me set new goals… — Amir Khan Copy Share Image
“What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the “real world”? What advice should they ignore?… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we don't need to eat or drink as much as we do, but it has become a kind of addiction. We… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
