Addiction Quote by Gary Zukav

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Not why the addiction, but why the pain.

— Gabor Mate

“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

“Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fear is an orphaned part of us seeking joy, some disowned shadow wanting to return to…

— Jacob Nordby

“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

There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of…

— Anonymous

Trapped within your own apathy. Spiraling into a cycle of loss. Beaten mind with a bruised reflection. It's addiction to failure of substances.

— Hatebreed

Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger.

— Pema Chodron

“Horrible world events, difficult choices, illnesses and periodic feelings of abject loneliness are common examples of existential pain.”

— Pete Walker

“Our core addiction is to struggle. All of the other addictions are an attempt to numb out from the heartache and stress that come…

— Mary O'Malley

“Pain is unrelenting. It will get our attention. Despite our attempts to drown it in addiction, to physically beat it out of one another,…

— Brené Brown

“It was becoming evident to me that addiction is addiction is addiction—that all the ways in which people binge, hoard, numb, act out, control,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert