Addiction Quotes - Page 23

• Some crave grief like strong drink.

  Mason Cooley

  Strong, Grief, Drink

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• Addicts turn their pleasures into vengeful Gods.

  Mason Cooley

  Pleasure, Vengeful, Turns

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• Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latterdeserve. To such mistakes we owe the numerous and frivolous tribe of insect-mongers, shell-mongers, and pursuers and driers of butterflies, etc. The strong mind distinguishes, not only between the useful and the useless, but likewise between the useful and the curious.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Strong, Mistake, Butterfly

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.160, OUP Oxford

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• We must be unafraid to be utterly honest, to honor our gut feelings, and to say and do the unpopular when necessary. We have to give up our addiction to other people's opinions and surrender to the freedom of acting with strength and courage.

  Suzanne Falter-Barns

  Giving Up, People, Feelings

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• During my drinking decades, I lived like a pig. My room was a hazardous pile of stilettos, tube tops, wine bottles, ashtrays, and old magazines. I valued nothing. Everything that came into my life was disposable: clothes, opportunities, people. My bedroom looked as if my insides had spilled out onto the floor.

  Glennon Melton

  Drinking, Wine, Opportunity

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• Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill.

  Jacob Braude

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Thinking

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• Addiction might be redefined not as a character flaw but as a "biochemical deficit management." Our emotional habits will become an accepted factor of good health, along with slogans like "Heartache can be harmful to your unborn children."

  Marni Jackson

  Children, Pain, Character

  Marni Jackson (2012). “Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign”, p.348, A&C Black

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• If you're losing the battle against a persistent bad habit, an addiction, or a temptation, and you're stuck in a repeating cycle of good intention-failure-guilt, you will not get better on your own. You need the help of other people. Some temptations are only overcome with the help of a partner who prays for you, encourages you, and holds you accountable.

  Rick Warren

  People, Temptation, Get Better

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• There is no error, no addiction with more power than the Cross of Christ.

  Matt Chandler

  Errors, Christ, Crosses

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• Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people get hooked on drugs and when they get over that addiction they go out and they try to talk to kids and they try to work in rehab centers.

  Ice T

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One of the reasons I sing so much about smoking or drinking isn't about the addiction, but more so that I'm trying to let people have a good time at my shows and forget their problems. Relax and enjoy. There's not certain religions or politics sold on them. Just come out, have a beer, have a laugh, good energy from stage and have a good time.

  Hank Williams III

  Drinking, Beer, People

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• 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.

  David Bowie

  Long, Alcohol, Drug

  "Q&A with David Bowie: The man who fell ... then got up again". Interview with Robert Hilburn, www.latimes.com. April 4, 1993.

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• We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.

  Keith Ablow

  War, Sight, Hatred

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• People ask me a lot about my drive. I think it comes from, like, having a sexual addiction at a really young age. Look at the drive that people have to get sex - to dress like this and get a haircut and be in the club in the freezing cold at 3 A.M., the places they go to pick up a girl. If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic

  Kanye West

  Girl, Sex, Thinking

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• I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.

  Michael Steinhardt

  Fruit, Ends, Process

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• Once and for all, people must understand that addiction is a disease. It’s critical if we’re going to effectively prevent and treat addiction. Accepting that addiction is an illness will transform our approach to public policy, research, insurance, and criminality; it will change how we feel about addicts, and how they feel about themselves. There’s another essential reason why we must understand that addiction is an illness and not just bad behavior: We punish bad behavior. We treat illness.

  David Sheff

  People, Essentials, Research

  David Sheff (2013). “Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Other 'Christian' girls may watch the same movies, listen to the same music, wear the same clothes, and have all the same pop culture addictions as the rest of the world with just slightly higher morals tacked on. But God has called us to a higher standard-the very standard of Jesus Christ. And I believe it's time we become worthy of the calling we have received.

  Leslie Ludy

  Girl, Christian, Jesus

  Leslie Ludy (2008). “Set-Apart Femininity: God's Sacred Intent for Every Young Woman”, p.83, Harvest House Publishers

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• These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

  Edward Boyden

  Motivation, Inspiration, Alzheimer's

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• I always think I am one of the millions and millions of people that struggles with an addiction to food. I don't know how to relax, that's my problem.

  Carnie Wilson

  Struggle, Thinking, People

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• Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.

  Dave Navarro

  Heart, New Music, Jane

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We are addicted to being the way we are

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Being Sad, Way

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• That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

  Eric Avery

  Regret, Relief, Ends

  Eric Avery @ericavery, twitter.com. March 1, 2010.

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• Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.

  James Buchan

  Oil, Different, Would Be

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• I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.

  Janice Dickinson

  Horrible, Former

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

  Jeanne Moreau

  People, Ifs, Addict

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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