"We deny the severity of our loved one's……" — David Sheff
"We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know."
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21 Quotes by David Sheff
David Sheff has 21 quotes on this site.
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The hopeful part about that is when you do have that help, you will feel better. It still doesn't make…
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Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.
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Once and for all, people must understand that addiction is a disease. It’s critical if we’re going to effectively prevent…
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This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are…
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If you subscribe to the idea that # addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of…
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How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.
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I didn't cause it. I can't control it. I can't cure it.
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I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who…
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Why does it help to read others' stories? It is not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery…
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How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same…
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I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry...
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Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.
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That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.
— Richard Armour
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
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It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when…
— Drew Barrymore
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism…
— Joseph Addison
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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact…
— Joseph Addison
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I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to…
— Juliette Binoche
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Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been…
— Michael Bloomberg
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I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the…
— Kobe Bryant
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To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her…
— James Buchan
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
— John Burroughs
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