Addiction Quotes - Page 16

Incarceration is as useful for addiction as it is for diabetes - i.e., not useful and potentially harmful, particularly for kids.

Facing my addiction was one of the hardest things I've had to do in my life.

I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.

Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very pleasant, but it's familiar.

We see things not as they are, but as we are. Your addictions distort how you process the enormous flow of information that is constantly flooding in through all of your sensory inputs.

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

While gambling addiction can be a social justice reason for some to ban gambling, the economic evidence suggests that the social and economic costs of gambling are $3 to the taxpayers for every $1 in benefits

Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.

I was a big rugby player and into my motocross, so I lost loads of weight and a rumor went around the town that I had picked up a drug addiction!

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.

All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.

I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Romantic love is an addiction.

It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with.

The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.

Openness is the first step toward recovery... addiction remains a secret because of the overwhelming shame associated with it.

[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.

The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.

I've seen firsthand the terrible consequences of drug abuse. My heart is with all who suffer from addiction and the terrible consequences for their families.

I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.