If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
In love addiction that experience of: 'Oh my God, I'm in love... I feel whole, and I feel like I've known this… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
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
And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
We're all addicts; we inhale and exhale, without air we can't live. But then, we're all different; I like to inhale C21H30O2,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I visited Amy as often as I could at the hospital. When you’re dealing with someone who’s recovering from drug addiction, you… — Mitch Winehouse Copy Share Image
Be thankful for every heartbreak, for they were planned. They come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to… — Jerhia Copy Share Image
A lot of addiction actually ends by age 30 - something like 50 percent of all addictions with the exception of tobacco… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
“Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others or position in life will keep us permanently secure.… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“What American would not want truthful and complete information about every product sold in the United States so that we can be… — Earl Chinnici Copy Share Image
“Sometimes… Sometimes doubt is the opposite of faith, but sometimes doubt can be a pathway to faith. Sometimes weakness is the opposite… — David W. Jones Copy Share Image
If you're not filled back up quickly, you might collapse like a birthday balloon". I guess that's why acting is so addictive.… — Matthew Jacobs Copy Share Image
The moment we shake our addiction to narrative and give up our strong-headed intent that language must say something "meaningful," we open… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I went public with the alcoholism, very early on... the early '70s. Mercedes McCambridge, the actress, I think was the first recognizable… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
For me, addiction never really included telling myself that everything was okay. By the time I was deep in my addictions, I… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Dependence on oil from volatile foreign markets undermines our economic security and threatens our national security. Moreover, that addiction is producing toxic… — Kevin de Leon Copy Share Image
“...introduced Doc to the miracle of morphine. From that very first shot it was as if he'd discovered the one vital ingredient… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind.… — Keith Ablow 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If you're to the point where you're trying to overcome that means you're at the point where you've admitted that you have… — Ryan Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The first step is to admit you’re powerless. You have an addiction, and you can’t stop. The first step is to tell… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The treatment must fit the malady and the malady is not alcoholism or addiction, or addictive drugs and alcohol. Once the correct… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“As long as one is escaping from loneliness, there is no essential difference between the worship of God and addiction to alcohol.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
“Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“I, also, decided to get rid of the need of approval. That is a strong addiction, the need of approval, isn't it?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless. This is… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
