The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I've solved my phone addiction by deleting all the apps I was addicted to - email, browser - and getting my wife… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Addictions are strategies we use to keep the truth from ourselves by blinding us from seeing what’s true about us.” — Michael John Cusick Copy Share Image
“People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process,… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Doing something for yourself passionately called addiction, but for others called dedication. — Sunny Gupta Copy Share Image
The strongest human addiction is to cure oneself, with life as its subscription — Alexander Fennis Copy Share Image
“I forgive you." The power of those words rushes through me, purging all the torturous memories of my youth. It gushes into… — Heather Day Gilbert Copy Share Image
Somehow, it was so happy a time. Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it. — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
“One of the things that strikes me most though is how some people don't realise they're self-harming. The phrase 'self-harm' brings up… — Carrie Hope Fletcher Copy Share Image
Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading,… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
“At some point, hurting myself has gone past the need to be in control. It's routine now. An addiction. I cannot cope… — Cheryl McIntyre Copy Share Image
Drug addiction is not a choice of lifestyle, it is a disorder of the brain and we need to recognize this. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now you know how I justify my addictions—if I can pay less for it than I would at Wal-Mart, I get to… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“I find these days that all I want for Rayya anymore—if you can be said to want anything for somebody who has… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will… — Virgil Miller Newton Copy Share Image
I have family members who literally struggle with crack addiction, and I've seen how destructive that's been, not only for their relationships… — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image
This is what I think. Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence… — Tess Callahan Copy Share Image
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
A shot to kill the pain. A pill to drain the shame. A purge to end the gain. A cut to break… — Patience Copy Share Image
When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We visual communicators have so much good to share: rather than sharing our chemical and style addictions, we could be using our… — David Berman Copy Share Image
“I thought I’d at least healed something during rehab and my year of sex addiction therapy, but clearly all I did was… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
