Addiction Quotes - Page 19

Writing is not a profession, it's an addiction.

It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating.

Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.

I think it’s the misperception of addiction and living life on the edge, as if it’s cool.

Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with acquaintances at work, either.

Addiction to food is unfortunately really grave, also to alcohol or to anything else.

As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

Were Moses to go up Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd bring down with him would be aspirin and Prozac.

I was an addict. That's why, ... I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy.

I don't know a family that isn't touched by some sort of addiction.

Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless. This is a terrible deception. Pornography is as addictive as cocaine or any illegal drug.

The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

We have to do more about addiction, not only drugs, but also alcohol.

No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I've got no time to lose.

We can see in retrospect that criminalizing the consumption of alcohol proves not to be the solution to the very real problem of drunkenness. So to what I want to say is the very real problem of the human susceptibility to addiction isn't best dealt with by building prisons and throwing people into jails.

I think stress is an addiction. It can be tied to work addiction or busyness addiction or success addiction.

The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.

Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.

By the mid-'80s, it was really apparent to me that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can't even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life.

End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.

My addiction has always been beautiful women, being surrounded by them.

The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to its influence. If one is obedient, the priesthood can show how to break a habit and even erase an addiction. Holders of the priesthood have that authority and should employ it to combat evil influences.

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.

Twenty percent of meals in America are eaten in the car. What if we turn even three percent of meals into open, compassionate conversations with loved ones around topics we perceive to be hard - like death or addiction? A lot will change.