I'm always working on something. Addiction never gets any credit, always talked about as a total liability, and I'll admit that most… — Joshua Mohr 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
After a while, we start really believing these things are true. People who have had self-defeating behaviors for a long time, such… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of something, to… — Rob Stampfli Copy Share Image
“...when he kneels at other times and prays or meditates or tries to achieve a Big-Picture spiritual understanding of God as he… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Some people are just addicted to suffering. They think that it will somehow make them happy at the end when really what… — Aokigahara29 Copy Share Image
“People often talk about crawling into the rooms of recovery on their knees, but when I turned to twelve-step for the second… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I have an iPhone, but that's just because I need to take pictures of my 5- and 8 1/2-year-old kids. It becomes… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take toward… — Hoda Kotb Copy Share Image
I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I sing so much about smoking or drinking isn't about the addiction, but more so that I'm trying… — Hank Williams III Copy Share Image
I think the scariest addiction on this planet is to alcohol. Because alcohol is a very addictive drug, and it ruins families,… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
“In Bradshaw On: The Family, society itself is seen as a sick family system built on the rules of the poisonous pedagogy.… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“I look away from her. “I have felt like an old man my whole life. And they get to have fun and… — Kenny Porpora Copy Share Image
We can't arrest and incarcerate addiction out of people. Not only do I think it's really inhumane, but it's ineffective and it… — Michael Botticelli Copy Share Image
I see the signs, but I can't read. I running at, a different speed. My heart beats in double time. Another kiss,… — Jade 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
“Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking about who we don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He didn’t think it was addiction. At some point, he had simply forgotten how to wake up. The wolf’s blood no longer… — Valon G Copy Share Image
There have been crazy highs and lows in my life. I've duelled with drug addiction and watched people dying... like everybody. I'm… — Roddy Bottum Copy Share Image
“And what was the point of an easy answer like that. Where did it lead. Nowhere good, in his experience. Easy answers… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
“A person with internalized shame believes he is inherently flawed, inferior and defective.Such a feeling is so painful that defending scripts (or… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“The support many Progressives lent to Prohibition reflected that naiveté, and though the Progressive Movement began to dissipate during World War I,… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“One of the first actions we take at Passages is to ruthlessly scrutinize, always under a doctor's supervision and care, the specific… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“Not only do we avert our eyes from the hardcore drug addict to avoid seeing ourselves; we do so to avoid facing… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Consumption can be a remedy against boredom and may convey a sense of fictitious power and supremacy, by standing out from the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Someone put opera on inside the house. Someone changed it to hip-hop, thank God. Someone started a shower. Someone vacuumed. Again. Life.… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“I have an affliction It’s an addiction To computer solitaire I can’t resist The icon’s invitation There’s simply no fix Black… — John Moran Copy Share Image
“THE RELIABLE WAY OUT OF OBESITY IS VIA PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. This point has been lost on the hundreds of folks who have… — Michael Prager Copy Share Image
Other 'Christian' girls may watch the same movies, listen to the same music, wear the same clothes, and have all the same… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
“Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial. The denial forces members to keep believing the myths and vital lies in… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Desperation precludes reflection. That is one of the reasons why smart people can get involved in very obviously unworkable relationships. Like addiction,… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“In the cloudy swirl of misleading ideas surrounding public discussion of addiction, there’s one that stands out: the misconception that drug taking… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“salvation. You have received salvation, now you need to learn how to walk according to your new nature. Those who have addictive… — Eddie Snipes Copy Share Image
In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“Sitting on the train I watch the scenery speeding by, notice a cobweb in the top corner of the window, undulating with… — Christine Lewry Copy Share Image
I think most American churchgoers are the soil that chokes the seed because of all the thorns. Thorns are anything that distracts… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
“A piece of plastic stole an entire species— In lobbies, in the bathroom, in an elevator, Ideas, reactions, and silent contemplations, During… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
