Addiction Quotes
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In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
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I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.
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I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids, I don't have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch, and I'm kind of target oriented.
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Addiction struggle is believing you are separate from love. It took me a long time to glimpse that.
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There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away.
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I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.
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Boxing is an addiction and I can’t get enough of it.
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Workaholicism is such a tough addiction to get over. I had to my wife because she was an enabler.
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Collection is an addiction.
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A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled up on top of it.
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There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.
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[While] my life started taking on all the problems of addiction. So that took me off into an area where relationships were absolutely impossible to handle on any real level. . . . Even communicating with other people was impossible.
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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
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A Rescuer isn't always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholism-all the ways we numb out-can rescue the Victim from feeling his or her own feelings.
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No behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love.
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His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.
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At the end of a project I get very weird, you know, in my head because I'm not doing it. It's like an addiction. I have to do it.
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Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.
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In college - while figuring the things out that most people do in college - I had no game. No confidence. I had Birkenstocks. And overalls. A budding romance novel addiction. But no cool. No poise. I was trying on a thousand different personalities, but a lot of them were formed by the perceptions of others.
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I felt that if people understood the struggle of recovery, then some of the stigma of addiction might be reduced because the audience would understand in a palpable way that addiction is a disease that tells the afflicted, despite years or even decades of heartbreaking evidence to the contrary, that using will make things better.
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People are hungry for messages of hope and life. What are you broadcasting?
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There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.
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I have a bag and shoe addiction. If I were a doctor or a lawyer, I'd still have it.
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It's not just that we all as individuals should reevaluate our relationship with our devices - maybe you should, on a personal level - but in terms of balancing the micro and the macro and the personal and the structural, it's actually a bigger issue than you and your phone addiction.
