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
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
“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
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
“Stepping out of other people’s drama cycles was scary, weird, and difficult for me at first. I felt guilty for keeping the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The desire to be loved, to feel loved, is behind every diet, pill, surgery, and lie. It is behind each act of… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
It is in this space of mastery over paradigms that people throw off addictions, live in constant joy, bring down empires, get… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
They think I'm powerful. because I do whatever I want. because I tell everyone to screw off. because I dont listen to… — Delaney Ridnour Copy Share Image
The moth don't care when he sees the flame He might get burned, but he's in the game And once he's in,… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
“I examined my Liberalism and found it like an addiction to roulette. Here, though the odds are plain, and the certainty of… — David Mamet 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
“the media, at least in the U.S., tends to focus on pain pill use, abuse, and addiction by people who do not… — Anna Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Overeating is the addiction of choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“You know how some people develop addictions to manage their overwhelming emotions? Some people become alcoholics, coke fiends, potheads, pill-poppers, over-eaters, sex… — Sage Steadman Copy Share Image
People ask me a lot about my drive. I think it comes from, like, having a sexual addiction at a really young… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Stay high, seeing from my birds eye view, I walk into a room and everybody starts sniffin, Like, oh my God, I… — Chris Webby 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
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
It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Butterflies in the stomach, a smile that won't go away, and it's like an addiction that makes a person yearn for more.… — Shelena Shorts Copy Share Image
Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
“I read today that all addiction is a form of misplaced worship. I get that. And I’ve certainly done that. I’ve mistaken… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead… — Robert Greenwald Copy Share Image
So to me, what the drugs and addiction are saying is that I deserve to feel good, I'm allowed to take this… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
While the Internet generally tends to have a stress-relieving function for adults - as long as they aren't inclined toward sex addiction… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
If you subscribe to the idea that # addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of these children… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
Ive cleansed myself. I closed my eyes and in a nanosecond, I cured myself from this ridiculous model of disease and addiction… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
“Solitude, at first is scary. All you have is yourself. After a while its comforting, it knows the real you and cant… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
“Several medical professional organizations acknowledge the utility of opioid therapy and many case series and large surveys report satisfactory reductions in pain,… — Andrew Rosenblum Copy Share Image
I started stealing in ninth grade. And I don't mean a pack of gum from the convenience store here and there. I… — Gigi Gorgeous Copy Share Image
“Anyway, my point is that guys like Flec have a weakness, almost a kind of addiction, for the mystical, as opposed to… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
In the gay world, some of the most enriching and incredibly life-affirming and shaping relationships, very often between younger boys and older… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
It's a beautiful thing to be that committed to something that you get so much joy from, but it is like a… — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
During my drinking decades, I lived like a pig. My room was a hazardous pile of stilettos, tube tops, wine bottles, ashtrays,… — Glennon Melton Copy Share Image
“Modest, conventional expectations weren't enough to lure Adam Brown away from the power of drug addiction that ensnared him. Instead, the college… — Eric Blehm Copy Share Image
“Are you thinking what i'm thinking, That you thinked that i Thinked, That you could think what i may think in the… — NewArtOfUniverse Copy Share Image
I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
