Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction.
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.
I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
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.
In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.
Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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.
What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.
I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them.
Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we're selling this deadly stuff anyway?
Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.
As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.
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