"Addiction is not something we can simply take……" — Gerald May
"Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it."
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15 Quotes by Gerald May
Gerald May has 15 quotes on this site.
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Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that…
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Grief is neither a disorder nor a healing process; it is a sign of health itself, a whole and natural…
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When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it…
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Mysterious as it may be, there is something wonderful at the heart of our existence, and it is about nothing…
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Peace is not something you can force on anything or anyone... much less upon one's own mind. It is like…
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To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.
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In every feeling, look deeply. Explore without ceasing. At bottom, love is.
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Love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or…
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True growth is a process which one allows to happen rather than causes to happen.
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Blessings sometimes come through brokenness that could never come in any other way.
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I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.
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Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.
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A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment 'Roseanne' dropped out of the top ten, in…
— Roseanne Barr
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Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
— Drew Barrymore
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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little…
— Bruce Barton
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
— Allan Bloom
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part…
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