“We all know the indignities to which enslaved humans will submit themselves in order to satisfy their addictions, whether for narcotics, alcohol,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Anybody can say 'I do' at the altar; the hard part is saying 'I do' every day thereafter. Anybody can set a… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
“We're all princes and princesses, at 5, 50, or 100! It's never too late, we're never too old to rock the world… — Pamela Taeuffer Copy Share Image
In my family and in my community, I see people struggling with drug addiction, with poverty and the effects of generational poverty;… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Addiction might be redefined not as a character flaw but as a "biochemical deficit management." Our emotional habits will become an accepted… — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
“People are the biggest drug addiction in the world, and I mean that quite literally. Take any single substance abuse problem in… — Chad Eastham Copy Share Image
Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I also had my own addiction to cocaine and heroin in my 20s. I knew that it was driven not by the… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
“I dye my jeans jet black once a week, but they never seem dark enough. I bleach my hair bright white twice… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“[On writing Jeeves and Wooster stories]: You tell yourself that you can take Jeeves stories or leave them alone, that one more… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Right now we have millions of people in our country who are suffering in isolation, thinking that they are the only ones… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“The phone is about the same size as a cigarette pack. It's no surprise to me that the traditional cigarette lighter in… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
it’s true this world our breathing laboured inspires nothing more than obvious disgust a desire to flee without our share and no… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“One thing I learned, between addiction and depression? Depression a lot worse. Depression ain't something you just get off of. You can't… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“What’s going to happen,” he breathes, “is that I’m going to carry you through this door. I’m going to draw out every… — Krista Ritchie Copy Share Image
One way we could describe the struggle of life would be to say it is a battle between agency and addiction. Agency… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
As you feel increasingly comfortable around your friends, I think it's more than fine to share the basic details of your heroin… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every day on our streets there are people who are facing a combination of homelessness, mental illness, and addiction. Each of these… — London Breed Copy Share Image
“Pain is unrelenting. It will get our attention. Despite our attempts to drown it in addiction, to physically beat it out of… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
When people tell me they will give it a try, I say don’t bother, you have already decided to fail. It takes… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which… — Ice T Copy Share Image
“Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“Once you have known awareness, nothing is worth it-- you have known the greatest bliss of life. Then, suddenly, many things simply… — Osho Copy Share Image
I got freed of all of my addictions January 16, 2009, but at that point I didn't do a full surrender to… — Mike Lindell Copy Share Image
Addiction is a chronic disease of the brain and it's one that we have to treat the way we would any other… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
“third choice was to strike off toward some new projection—a new job, a better (different) relationship, a seductive ideology, or sometimes to… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
One of the problems we have is that we cannot just be content to admire and enjoy, we have to possess and… — Joseph Girzone Copy Share Image
“We have to be diligent in seeking after God, emotionally attached and consciously aware of Him at all times. The desire for… — Etta Dale Hornsteiner Copy Share Image
When I was Surgeon General, I spent a lot of time talking to people in living rooms and town halls all across… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
When you're first in love with somebody, and it's not true love, it's borderline obsession, it's kind of like an addiction. You… — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
“This was a high that could never be duplicated. It was a high more dangerous to a man's soul than any found… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of… — Robin Williams 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
There came a time in everyone’s life when they realized that in spite of how hard they’d been running from themselves, everywhere… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
This is the 21st century, we are a highly evolved race, our capabilities are so great compared to what we are doing.… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
“I don't think you can get really out of anorexia (or any addiction, for that matter) until you simply have no other… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“If I could open a vein. Not to inject any shit, I will never weaken like that again, but just to feel… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image