Quote by Brené Brown

“Now I can lean into joy, even when it makes me feel tender and vulnerable. In fact, I expect tender and vulnerable. Joy is…

— Brené Brown

Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways…

— Pema Chodron

“The condition in extreme is identifiable but the less obvious version of addiction is still painful and arguably worse because we simply adapt to…

— Russell Brand

“I knew this was a critically important finding in my research, so I spent several hundred interviews trying to better understand the consequences of…

— Brené Brown

The underlying motivation that drives all addiction is our insistence on avoiding pain. However, the pain you are avoiding is based in the past,…

— Leonard Jacobson

When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

— Aldous Huxley

“We must do away with any shred of denial, minimization, justification, or rationalization. To recover, we must completely and totally understand and accept the…

— Noah Levine

Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.

— Eckhart Tolle

My sadness has become an addiction. When I'm not sad, I feel lost. I start to panic trying to find my way back which…

— Anonymous

The thing about addiction is that it never ends well. Because eventually, whatever it is that was getting us high, stops feeling good and…

— Anonymous