Addiction Quotes - Page 2

• We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Income, Habit, Our Lives

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.113, Psychology Press

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• Well done is better than well said.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

  Gabor Mate

  Drug, Relief, Behaviour

  Gabor Mate, M.D. (2009). “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction”, p.33, Knopf Canada

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  Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Life, Inspiration

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• When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.

  Luke Davies

  Recovery, Overcoming Addiction, Alcohol

  "Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction". Book by Luke Davies, June 16, 1998.

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• In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Summer, Recovery

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• It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

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• 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.

  Gerald May

  Care, Masters, Remedy

  Gerald G. May (2009). “Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions”, p.10, Harper Collins

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  The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Thomas Paine (1817). “The Political Works of Thomas Paine: In Two Volumes”

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Giving, Desire, Satisfaction

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• Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Why democracy will last". Margaret Thatcher's second Carlton Lecture at the Carlton Club in central London, www.margaretthatcher.org. November 26, 1984.

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• If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Uplifting, Smart

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• If a man does his best, what else is there?

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Witty, Military

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• I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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

  Dale Archer

  Alcohol, Rehab, Action

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• All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Stress, Suffering, Realizing

  "Mindfulness In the Modern World". Interview with Stephan Rechtschaffen, www.eomega.org. February 24, 2012.

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

  Christopher Lasch

  Believe, Media, Belief

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.521, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

  Bill Cosby

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, Literature, Life Is

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• No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Race, Class, People

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• I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

  Keith Miller

  Pain, Successful, Men

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• Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Reality, Needs, Cocaine

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• 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.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Clothes, Dresses, Different

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Oil, People, Gas

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