“The question is never “Why the addiction?” but “Why the pain?” — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.” — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“No society can understand itself without looking at its shadow side.” — Gabor Maté Shadow Copy Share Image
“The United States contains less than 5 percent of the world’s population but houses nearly a quarter of the world’s prisoners.” — Gabor Maté Population Copy Share Image
“I needed to write, to express myself through written language not only so that others might hear me but so that I… — Gabor Maté Language Copy Share Image
“Loneliness has been similarly associated with diminished immune activity in a group of psychiatric inpatients.” — Gabor Maté Loneliness Copy Share Image
It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the… — Gabor Mate Addict Copy Share Image
“It is children's desire to be good for us that warrants our trust, not their ability to perform to our expectations.” — Gabor Maté Child Copy Share Image
“Misogyny is a son's outwardly projected rage on a mother who was unable to protect him.” — Gabor Maté Misogyny Copy Share Image
“The fact is, we in this society are often quite removed from our own emotional reality.” — Gabor Maté Emotional Copy Share Image
“I can do this with half my brain tied behind my back,” I used to joke. No joke, that. It’s precisely how… — Gabor Maté Half Copy Share Image
“If a mother has eight children, there are eight mothers. This is not simply because of the fact that the mother was… — Gabor Maté Children Copy Share Image
“Many of us live, if not alone, then in emotionally inadequate relationships that do not recognize or honour our deepest needs. Isolation… — Gabor Maté Loneliness Copy Share Image
“Compassionate curiosity about the self does not mean liking everything we find out about ourselves, only that we look at ourselves with… — Gabor Maté Compassion Copy Share Image
“The power to parent will be transferred to whomever the child depends on, whether or not that person is truly dependable, appropriate,… — Gabor Maté Child Copy Share Image
“Disease is not simply a manifestation of some physical process unique to the individual, but it reflects their particular lives, environment and… — Gabor Maté Disease Copy Share Image
“Creatures of attachment are creatures of instinct and impulse. It doesn't feel good or right or proper to seek favor in the… — Gabor Maté Attachment Copy Share Image
“External motivators for behavior such as rewards and punishments may destroy the precious internal motivation to be good, making leverage by such… — Gabor Maté Child Copy Share Image
“Attachment, we have noted, does its work invisibly. People who out of pure instinct have created a good attachment relationship with their… — Gabor Maté Child Copy Share Image
“Many people have concluded that parents cannot be expected to know what to do without formal training. There are all kinds of… — Gabor Maté Child Copy Share Image
“Interactions with other human beings — in particular, emotional interactions — affect our biological functioning in myriad and subtle ways almost every… — Gabor Maté Every moment Copy Share Image
“The purpose is not to justify or rationalize but to understand. Justification is another form of judgment every bit as debilitating as… — Gabor Maté Justification Copy Share Image
The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans,… — Gabor Mate Abstract Copy Share Image
“Not every story has a happy ending [...], but the discoveries of science, the teachings of the heart and the revelations of… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“Dr. Cai Song is an internationally known researcher at the University of British Columbia and co-author of a recent textbook, Fundamentals of… — Gabor Maté Autoimmune disease Copy Share Image
“Everyone has an urge to create. Its expression may flow through many channels: through writing, art or music, through the inventiveness of… — Gabor Maté Art Copy Share Image
“A sense of deficient emptiness pervades our entire culture. The drug addict is more painfully conscious of this void than most people… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“All we know about the advances in addiction treatment arises out of our understanding of trauma. People often think that trauma is… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“We have to understand that medicine is not simply a science. It's much more than that. It's also an ideology. It's a… — Gabor Maté Doctor Copy Share Image
“Much of what we do arises from automatic programming that bypasses conscious awareness and may even run contrary to our intentions, as… — Gabor Maté Conscious awareness Copy Share Image
“Peer-oriented kids are repelled by similarity to their parents and want to be as different as possible from them. Since sameness means… — Gabor Maté Children Copy Share Image
“The chief and most damaging of the competing attachments that undermine parenting authority and parental love is the increasing bonding of our… — Gabor Maté Child Copy Share Image
“If development unfolds optimally and the child makes headway in becoming her own person, the need for attachment wanes. As it does,… — Gabor Maté Child Copy Share Image
“Despite the intervening six decades of scientific inquiry since Selye’s groundbreaking work, the physiological impact of the emotions is still far from… — Gabor Maté Early childhood Copy Share Image
“Any passion can become an addiction; but then how to distinguish between the two? The central question is: who’s in charge, the… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
![“Not every story has a happy ending [...], but the discoveries of science, the teachings of the heart and the revelations of the soul all assure us that no human being is ever beyond redemption. The possibility of renewal exists so long as life exists. How to support that possibility in others and…” quote by Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/301/gabor-mat-1410_addiction_not-every-story-has-a-happy-ending-but-t_581790.jpg)
