Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Multitasking creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation. — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
One Day, I will Wake up and Will Not have to live in this madness anymore. But No matter what I do… — Dakota Blue Cicilline Copy Share Image
“. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
The tragic fact is that with addiction, like many other illnesses, sometimes you can do everything right and people die. — David Sheff Copy Share Image
“It all depended on how much of Isaac's loving I could take. His body and his touch had become something of an… — Gideon Rathbone Copy Share Image
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 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
“There is little research being done on the neurological basis of porn addiction. In part this is because it is not seen… — William M. Struthers 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
It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal… — Jim Ramstad Copy Share Image
“In the seventy-six years since AA was created, 12-step programs have expanded to include over three hundred different organizations, focusing on such… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
My girlfriend loves to eat chocolate. She's always eating chocolate. And she likes to joke she's got a chocolate addiction. You know,… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Surfing is a huge passion of mine. I'm and addict to it in a sense. I think it is a good addiction.… — Bethany Hamilton 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
Onstage it was always comfortable for me because that's where I felt at home. Offstage it was a different situation. I was… — Elton John Copy Share Image
“YANNI “JOHNNY” BACOLAS: I would always tell him, “Layne [Staley], why don’t you take off, go to some deserted island, hire the… — greg prato Copy Share Image
“Just because something is addictive doesn't mean that you will get addicted to it. But . . . if your stomach ties… — Ethlie Ann Vare 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
LOVE-ADDICTION: Trying to make someone love you even at the last moment of your life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What is the answer to this addition? 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 1 + 1 x 0 + 1 = ?” — Beatrice Wood Copy Share Image
Addiction is a powerful disease that is and sly and crafty It's so sad, When it claims another don't be ashamed to… — Simpleman Copy Share Image
End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No hope, just desperation. So sit and wait for death and pray it takes you soon. The addiction's taking you. — Bullet For My Valentine Copy Share Image
“The truth most families eventually discover is that no one can cure another person's addiction. Omly addicts can do that for themselves.” — Beverly Conyers Copy Share Image
Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Addictions of any nature or degree are temporary emotional and/or mental escapes we create to prevent us from dealing with a certain… — Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana 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
“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
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
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
“Alcoholism, of course, is more than a habit. It’s a physical addiction with psychological and perhaps genetic roots.” — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image