Addiction Quote by Russell Brand

I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's direction or…

— Virginia Satir

any compulsion tries to justify itself.

— Joan Didion

“have been so trained by others on what we “should” do that we think we are being loving when we do things out of…

— Henry Cloud

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

— Albert Einstein

The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the…

— James Stephens

Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don't want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you observe the…

— Vernon Howard

There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from…

— Eric Hoffer

“Humans, in short, desire something both unknown to them and inaccessible to the strategies of acquisition that desire sets in motion. We are creatures…

— Gil Bailie

When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune…

— Marcus Aurelius

“When a desire is born in us , we have a choice. When it exists still in its infancy, we have a choice. We…

— Walter Wangerin Jr

We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove…

— Vernon Howard

When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater future possibilities,…

— Steven Kotler