Addiction Quotes - Page 7

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.

We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified, drug addictions, personalities, it just became too much.

Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.

Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.

This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic--has contributed to the escalation of use and has hampered treatment more than any single other factor.

Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Consider our difficulties avoiding junk food and overspending. Such addictions were carefully planned-for by professional marketing teams.

Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which... obsession replaces people.

There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can. ... There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of desires.

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can.

I have an addictive personality. Sport is my drug of choice these days. It's one of the best drugs there is. It keeps you fit and healthy, even if, in the case of ironman, it pushes your body to the limit. The word "addiction" comes with negative connotations, but it doesn't have to be a damaging impulse. It's all about channeling your craving into something positive.

The only thing I'm addicted to right now is winning.

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.

I also had my own addiction to cocaine and heroin in my 20s. I knew that it was driven not by the things that the drug workers were telling me; in fact, I couldn't believe any drug information that was given to me by authorities because I knew from my own experience that it was wrong.

It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you.

She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.

When there is a start to be made, don't step over! Start where you are.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

If you're happy, you eat. If you're sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It's, you know, it's addiction.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction