“More than anything, AA offers a comforting veneer of actionable change: it is something you can do.” — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“He was the kind of boy to crush your heart into dust then snort it off the table in front of you.” — P.A. Bitez Copy Share Image
“Alcoholism, of course, is more than a habit. It’s a physical addiction with psychological and perhaps genetic roots.” — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
ADDICTION - A dictating disease inwardly created to impress on nerves. Addiction is to the mind, like lust is to sex. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I knew it was against the rules to bet on football, but when you've got an addiction you just want to win… — Kyle Lafferty Copy Share Image
I am on an emotional roller coaster ride to survive and to conquer obesity, not only for myself but also for everyone… — Ruby Gettinger Copy Share Image
“I have met and listened to a very large number of people who have “failed” at AA and some who continue to… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“Feeling addicted to an ex makes letting them go excruciatingly hard even when you rationally want to move on.” — Dr. Cortney Warren Copy Share Image
I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
“A successful alone-time period means letting go of communication addiction. During alone time, give up instant messages, phone calls, e-mail, and meetings.… — Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Matthew Linderman, 37 Signals Copy Share Image
“The degradation woven through these steps also seems unwittingly designed to exacerbate, rather than relieve, the humiliating feelings so common in addiction.… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
Everybody's addicted to something. Everybody's got to grip onto something even if it's just to feel the response of a pill maybe… — James Meroow Copy Share Image
I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
“We learned a new way to consume each other, without the need for any drug or conflict. We smothered each other in… — Kenya Wright 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
“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
Social media puts us inside our phones and our computers and our headphones, and we're not connecting so much with our outside… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
The [Burmese] government appears to be more interested in stamping out political activity than drug addiction. Very few university students on the… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addiction is a massive problem in our society. It… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I do a lot of drug and alcohol speaking with people to stop addictions. I'm not a Bible-thumper. I don't preach like… — Sam Childers Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think, Was she thinking about me when she was drinking? Did any of them ever think about me when they… — Kenny Porpora 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
“No matter how many books you own, you can never own enough. Reading books is the best addiction anyone can have.” — Stackpole Books Copy Share Image
And you became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“Some, they didn't make it. The temptation just too strong. How can darkness cloud the mind To what I know as wrong?” — Kimberly Nalen Copy Share Image
I am discovering how my consciousness dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
“ Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses." Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.” — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“What we call the personality is often a jumble of genuine traits and adopted coping styles that do not reflect our true… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“Addiction to knowledge is like any other addiction; it offers an escape from the fear of emptiness, of loneliness, of frustration, the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Kids are like heroin, a little heroin addiction. When it’s bad, you’ve never been so miserable, but when it’s good you’ve never… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
“Letting go of your ex is part of a much larger lifelong journey of understanding yourself and making choices consistent with your… — Dr. Cortney Warren Copy Share Image
Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as heroin or crack cocaine... — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Many doctors are stuck in the idea that addiction is a choice, and they don't treat that. — David Sheff Copy Share Image
In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There are some people who can't sleep because they have insomnia, I'm one of those people who can't sleep because they have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
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