Addiction Quotes - Page 6

Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.

Those of you who have fallen prey to any kind of addiction, there is hope because God loves all of His children

Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences.

Whenever you feel upset, take full responsibility for the emotions that you are experiencing. Get to work as quickly as possible identifying the programming, or the addiction, that is leading you to reject what other people are saying or doing.

Master books, but do not let them master you.

At every stage, addiction is driven by one of the most powerful, mysterious, and vital forces of human existence. What drives addiction is longing--a longing not just of brain, belly, or loins but finally of the heart.

Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience ... centered primarily around bodily pleasures and status rankings. ... The common denominator is a rugged and ragged individualism and rapacious hedonism in quest of a perennial "high" in body and mind.

Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.

There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.

Addiction is more malleable than you know. When people come to me for therapy, they often ask me whether their behavior constitutes a real addiction (or whether they are really alcoholic, etc.). My answer is that this is not the important question. The important questions are how many problems is the involvement causing you, how much do you want to change it, and how can we go about change?

An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production.

Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger.

I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.

Start announcing freedom from anything that’s holding you back. Freedom from addictions, freedom from loneliness, freedom from lack, freedom from struggle. You are prophesying your future. Your words are setting the direction for your life.

The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.

Drugs are a carnival in hell.

Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.

It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.

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.

One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.

It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop.