Addiction Quotes
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Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.
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Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.
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My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way - being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension.
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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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I think most American churchgoers are the soil that chokes the seed because of all the thorns. Thorns are anything that distracts us from God. When we want God and a bunch of other stuff, then that means we have thorns in our soil. A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled on top of it.
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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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Collection is an addiction.
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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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I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.
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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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Boxing is an addiction and I can’t get enough of it.
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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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Comics are in my blood. It's my strange addiction, and I love it.
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There's all kinds of ways to wean yourself off of sugar - because it is like an 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 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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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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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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[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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Workaholicism is such a tough addiction to get over. I had to my wife because she was an enabler.
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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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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.
