Addiction Quotes · Page 41

Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you…

— Criss Jami

“Addiction is not a moral defect, and to suggest that does a great disservice to people suffering with this disorder.”

— Lance Dodes

I am not your victim because you are not a predator any more than a bottle of scotch stalks an alcoholic.

— Sue William Silverman

All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You know, we think about addiction as a morally reprehensible choice, but addicts act crazy because, in a way, that they are.

— David Sheff

Nothing is wrong with me, Dan. Whats wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on…

— Martin Hopkins

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

Racism is still America's greatest addiction. I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God.

— Michael Pfleger

I felt that if people understood the struggle of recovery, then some of the stigma of addiction might be reduced because the…

— Brian Lindstrom

My mouth is no prayer book, but my view is, I'd view addiction to these substances as a medical problem and I…

— Glenn Loury

I started riding bikes when I was really young, but I stopped when I was 19 because my mother asked me to,…

— Mark Boone Junior

I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as…

— Tommy Rettig

I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The…

— Padgett Powell

“Remember what I used to tel you when you were a little girl? ‘A fool and her money soon part.’ Current-day translation?…

— Sophie Kinsella

“Day after day, more and more medications are prescribed for depression and addiction, assuming that these things run in our blood, when…

— Vironika Tugaleva

“[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but…

— Paul Auster

Be thankful for every heartbreak, for they were planned. They come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to…

— Jerhia

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

“May 20 Coming Out Of Isolation "We find ourselves doing and enjoying things that we never thought we would be doing." Basic…

— Anonymous

“Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others or position in life will keep us permanently secure.…

— Joyce Meyer

“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

If you're losing the battle against a persistent bad habit, an addiction, or a temptation, and you're stuck in a repeating cycle…

— Rick Warren

“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

“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

We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.

— Ron Kind

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

We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of…

— Francis Chan

All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.

— WH Auden

She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.

— Ellen Burstyn

“Their addiction to suffering is nothing but an agreement that is reinforced every day.”

— Miguel Ruiz

Once you get that addiction of realizing what you can do, you want to take that to the next level.

— Gina Carano

Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.

— Pierre Dukan

“Jealousy in any form will cloud thinking and form bad habits. Jealousy is an addiction.”

— Richie Norton

“In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense”

— Munia Khan

Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.

— Colin Farrell

“I became addicted to the guilt. The strange thrill of doing something so morbid, so off-color, and so completely wrong.”

— Marcella Pixley

“Oh and P.S.? I am in dire need of more coffee. Industrial strength." "But we're going to sleep soon," I say. "I…

— Susane Colasanti

“Why the addict is counting on the days of taking off addiction ... simply because he is waiting to know how long…

— Mohamed Saad

Breakups are hard to deal with because the body and mind go through withdrawal - Like drug addiction, we become addicted to…

— Anmol Andore

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

— Sigmund Freud