Addiction Quote by Richard Rudd

“Addictions, even as they resemble normal human yearnings, are more about desire than attainment. In the addicted mode, the emotional charge is in the…

— Gabor Maté

Addictions are those things you've allowed to occupy the centre of your mind. You can't think without them. To overcome them, you have to…

— Terry Mark

An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.

— Marion Woodman

“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

“Misplaced attachment to what cannot satiate the soul is not an error exclusive to addicts, but the common condition of mankind. It is this…

— Gabor Maté

I am discovering how my consciousness dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me.

— Ken Keyes Jr

This is what I think. Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence if you…

— Tess Callahan

“This addiction keeps you stuck in a pattern of knee-jerk reactions to thoughts and events, rather than allowing you to consciously create what you…

— S.J. Scott

Cognitive states of mind are seldom addictive, since they depend upon exploration of the world, and the individual encounter with the individual object, whose…

— Roger Scruton

“Dr. Chopra describes all addiction as a lack of exultation; meaning that something is missing from the person’s life. From a mind-body medicine perspective…

— John Barrett Hawkins

“Addictions of any nature or degree are temporary emotional and/or mental escapes we create to prevent us from dealing with a certain reality.”

— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

Addiction is a chronic disease of the brain and it's one that we have to treat the way we would any other chronic illness:…

— Vivek Murthy