Addiction Quotes · Page 41

When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.

— Pema Chodron

“What we call the personality is often a jumble of genuine traits and adopted coping styles that do not reflect our true…

— Gabor Maté

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about…

— Alice Miller

“ Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses." Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.”

— Carrie Fisher

“Addiction to knowledge is like any other addiction; it offers an escape from the fear of emptiness, of loneliness, of frustration, the…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

And you became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction.

— Mahmoud Darwish

“No matter how many books you own, you can never own enough. Reading books is the best addiction anyone can have.”

— Stackpole Books

The song is about knowing the end result of every situation you're in, and being able to play it out in your…

— Rufus Wainwright

Is it just me, or does anyone else have a women who can't go an hour without using her cell phone, a…

— Fitzma

Addiction is such an isolating incident in your life. You feel alone. And when you admit, when you come into a fellowship…

— Michael Botticelli

I used to kind of blame someone for not being able to get through that - I'm talking about the addiction part…

— Eddie Vedder

“Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fear is an orphaned part of us seeking joy, some disowned shadow wanting to…

— Jacob Nordby

Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems…

— Chris Prentiss

My mouth is no prayer book, but my view is, I'd view addiction to these substances as a medical problem and I…

— Glenn Loury

“And, sure, fine, I do check my phone about every two minutes, but so do a lot of people, and it's better…

— Aimee Bender

Science is now documenting that it's not the objects of meditation that are important, it's the process of paying attention to them…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Intensity-seeking is an enslavement of our own perpetuation. When we step out of the delirium of always seeking someone new, and meet…

— Alexandra Katehakis

The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addiction is a massive problem in our society. It…

— John Bradshaw

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

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

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

“Black-and-white thinking is the addict's mentality, which can be a bar to recovery when one is still active. But an addict who…

— Michael Prager

“Of course, the puritanical have opposed idleness since biblical times. Spiritual sloth was the "noonday demon" that distracted a monk from his…

— Jessica Kerwin Jenkins

“Feeling addicted to an ex makes letting them go excruciatingly hard even when you rationally want to move on.”

— Dr. Cortney Warren

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

“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

It's been one of the greatest challenges that ever came along in my life; it was one of the more difficult things…

— Buzz Aldrin

You know, we think about addiction as a morally reprehensible choice, but addicts act crazy because, in a way, that they are.

— David Sheff

Nothing is wrong with me, Dan. Whats wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on…

— Martin Hopkins

All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it’s going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it’s going poorly.

— Helen Fisher

We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.

— Ron Kind

Racism is still America's greatest addiction. I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God.

— Michael Pfleger

Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which... obsession replaces people.

— Patrick Carnes

“Stopping to have a smoke is a time-honored tradition non-smokers can’t understand.”

— Krzysztof Pacyński

It's all about choices! You choose, you make the rules, not tobacco companies, not addiction

— John Kehoe

“Addiction is not a moral defect, and to suggest that does a great disservice to people suffering with this disorder.”

— Lance Dodes

Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you…

— Criss Jami

“Funny how addiction was socially acceptable—even a status symbol—when it made people extroverts rather than introverts”

— Stacia Kane