Addiction Quote by Gabor Maté Download Open image ““The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.”” — Gabor Maté ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Addiction Bravery Consciousness Courage Denial Dissociation Mindfulness Pain Psychology Repression Self knowledge Therapy Wellbeing
“The fact is, whenever you resist the pain that’s there, your suffering increases.” — Elisha Goldstein Copy Share Image
“The way you engage someone's pain either reinforces their pain or helps to release it.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Somehow, the pain only makes it better, more intense, more worth it.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain becomes too… — Bronnie Ware Copy Share Image
“Pain makes you grow, bigger, better, stronger, and wiser. Without pain you'd stay the same.” — Hengky Surjadi Copy Share Image
“Pain has a purpose. It makes us stronger. More compassionate. Able to love more deeply than we thought possible. If we let it, it… — D. Nichole King Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, the anticipation of pain is worse than the pain itself.” — Karpov Kinrade Copy Share Image
“As parents who make every effort we can to raise our children in loving security, we do not need to feel more guilt than… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The fact is, we in this society are often quite removed from our own emotional reality.” — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Shame is the deepest of the “negative emotions,” a feeling we will do almost anything to avoid. Unfortunately, our abiding fear of shame impairs… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Many adults have not attained maturity — have not mastered being independent, self-motivated individuals capable of tending their own emotional needs and of respecting… — Gabor Maté 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 different in… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Without attachment, the parent succeeds at most in cowing a child into obedience, at the price of grave damage to the relationship and to… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Attachment is our connection with the world. In the earliest attachment relationships, we gain or lose the ability to stay open, self-nurturing and healthy.… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“So what you've actually got is traumatized children. When children are traumatized that affects how they feel about themselves, which is deeply ashamed because… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Even without world wars, revolutions and emigration, siblings growing up in the same home almost never share the same environment. More accurately, brothers and… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“We think that there are people who are normal over here, and then there’s the pathological ones who have depression, anxiety, addiction or schizophrenia… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“One cannot get much more vulnerable than to expose oneself psychologically. To share oneself with another and then be misunderstood or rejected is, for… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I… — Robbin Crosby Copy Share Image
“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time... Creative people probably do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I really think the disease aspect gets lost when you're talking about alcoholism and addiction; it's not like you're battling leukemia or a heart… — Jim Irsay Copy Share Image
I had an addiction to artificial points of success. Like being able to run for this or run for that. — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
“Addictions are just symptoms of underlying issues, and in my view Nikki self-medicated the emotional pain of his childhood, and being away from his… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
“They say when you fall in love in love with someone that person becomes like a drug,an addiction you don't want to live without.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
Cold sweats, hallucinations I wanna speed to stop. The hell I'm going through The addiction's taking you. — Bullet For My Valentine Copy Share Image
