Addiction Quotes - Page 25

• Do not let the hero in your soul perish.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Hero, Recovery

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2269, Penguin

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• It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will lie to you and steal from you and forgive them and offer them help. Can there be any other disease that renders its victims so unappealing?

  Russell Brand

  Lying, People, Drunk

  "Out of the Wreck I Rise: A Literary Companion to Recovery". Book by Neil Steinberg and Sara Bader, www.npr.org. August 23, 2016.

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• Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.

  Ann Landers

  Friendship, Risk, Withdrawal

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• I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.

  Eloisa James

  Christmas, Indulge In, Glitter

  "Paris in Love: A Memoir". Book by Eloisa James, April 3, 2012.

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• Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.

  Shane Koyczan

  Drug, Becoming, Sometimes

  "To This Day". Spoken word poem by Shane Koyczan (from the album "Remembrance Year"), 2012.

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• We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it’s dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying.

  Brené Brown

  Bullying, People, Eating Disorder

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.67, Penguin

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• In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development.

  Alice Miller

  Suicide, Bullying, Children

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• Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

  Henry J. Kaiser

  Positive, Work, Adversity

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• Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better

  Emile Coue

  Positive, Stress, Overcoming Addiction

  De la Suggestion et de Ses Applications (1915)

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• What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

  Louis Mann

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page.

  Eileen Caddy

  Motivational, Positive, Recovery

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• To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

  William James

  Life, Positive, Art

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  The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

  William James

  Life, Change, Positive

  "Living the Abundant Life". Book by Thomas S. Monson, 2004.

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• Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

  Saint Augustine

  Motivational, Faith, Time

  "Sermons to the People". Book by Augustine of Hippo (Sermon 80:8),

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• Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

  Robert Collier

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

  Burton Hill

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial

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• There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"

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• Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

  Dale Carnegie

  Happiness, Horse, Hard Times

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• Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Depression, Patience

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• Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity, it is the illness of those who do not know where they fit, who lose faith in the myths they have so painstakingly created for themselves. It is a plague - especially if you add in its various forms of expression, like alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, drug addiction, compulsive behavior of one kind or another. They're all the same things: attempts to avoid disappearance, or nothingness, or chaos.

  Tim Lott

  Depression, Character, Unique

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• Exercise is like an addiction. Once you're in it, you feel like your body needs it.

  Elsa Pataky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

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• I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Happiness, Morning, Get Well

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• No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Power, Overcoming Addiction

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.610, Hamilton Books

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