Addiction Quotes - Page 5

I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.

It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and I like the taste of metal

[On his heroin addiction:] I did it to myself. It wasn't society...it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.

Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?

We know that material things don't offer contentment, but we still buy more-more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us we must have in order to be happy and "happening." Our addiction to consumption distracts us from seeing that we are disconnected from ourselves, from our truth and from one another. Any euphoria we gain from our material gains is fleeting at best.

All I've ever done is work in bars and be a wrestler; I often wonder if I'd have pumped gas, would I have been a womanizer and had addiction problems?

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.

Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.

I am freeing myself from security, sensation and power addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life and thus destroy my serenity and keeps me from loving myself and others.

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow.

If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

Everyone has an addiction, mine happens to be you.

It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food.

The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help they have no hope.

Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized.

There came a time in everyone’s life when they realized that in spite of how hard they’d been running from themselves, everywhere they went, there they were: Addictions and compulsions were nothing but marching bands of distraction, masking truths that were unpleasant, but ultimately undeniable.

It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just stuck, and they can't get it out because there's too much greed. There's too much obsession with reputation and addiction to narrow conceptions of success.

For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction.