Addiction Quotes - Page 15

I think I have an adrenaline addiction, no question about that.

Being forcefully rattled out of our consumer mentality - our addiction to comfort and convenience can create an opportunity for us [people] to reconnect with what we really value and with the qualities of life that really can sustain us - which include reconnecting with our roles as citizens, community members, and human beings.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

If you ever had anyone in your life who has been struggling with addiction or struggling with anything, it's about the resilience of love and how much you're willing to struggle with somebody to preserve your relationship and to try to preserve them as a person - and I think that's really important.

No behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love.

For many, the regressive belief in superstitions and miracles is an escape from the hardships of life. Once trapped into irrationalism, they become more incapable of mastering reality. It is a vicious circle, like an addiction. They become vulnerable to exploitation by astrologers, godmen, dubious pseudo-psychologists, corrupt politicians and the whole mega-industry of irrationalism.

It's just after I walked away from my addictions and the things that I struggled with, that's when I chose Jesus Christ and now he helps me and guides me through the rest of my life.

Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

There have been crazy highs and lows in my life. I've duelled with drug addiction and watched people dying... like everybody. I'm not saying it's an exceptionally dramatic peaks-and-valleys kind of life but there's a lot of it, honestly.

Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn.

There are chemical and other explanations for addictions, but speaking from my own observations (and I am a shamanic type), there is always some sort of disembodied spirit causing some of the addiction, riding your energy field, trying to impose their needs and addictions onto you.

Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention.

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.

MySpace is an addiction.

I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

I'm like a junky without an addiction.

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

I have a lot of friends who come from alcoholic families, and they aren't alcoholics, because someone explained it to them. When I was in Washington DC, they really talked about the difference statistically between families that talk about drug addiction and ones that don't. The kids that can say "I see where this is going" have a much better chance of not becoming addicts, because they have been educated.

I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.

Addiction is a health issue, not a social issue, not a crime, not a legal issue.

People fail forward to success.

You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.