Addiction Quotes - Page 28

• Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become addicted to.

  Wendell Berry

  Gadgets, Waste, Recycling

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth”, p.158, Counterpoint Press

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• Man has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous, less constant, less rational, less peaceful than he knows how to be, than he is fully capable of being. He has been led astray from the ways of peace and brotherhood by his addiction to concepts and attitudes of narrow nationalism, racial and religious bigotry, greed and lust for power.

  Ralph Bunche

  Wise, Wisdom, Religious

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• To limit yourself to a label of "alcoholic" is masochistic and false if you have awakened a deeper spiritual identity within and have come to know your true self as unconditioned pure awareness. This doesn't mean that recovering alcoholics don't have to be concerned with relapsing, they must always remain vigilant. The power of addiction should not be underestimated. This exercise in vigilance can become a spiritual tool of liberation as well. Always being aware of choosing between real happiness and false happiness is also the discrimination required to attain enlightenment.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Real, Mean

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• Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes.

  Colman McCarthy

  Oil, America, Ashes

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• Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Revolution, Permanence

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• Drugs are a carnival in hell.

  Edith Piaf

  Drug, Hell, Carnivals

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• The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Drinking, Impossible, Stop Drinking

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• I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Hell, Demon, Destruction

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• Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Dark, Meditation Practice, Discipline

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “Glimpse After Glimpse: Daily Reflections on Living and Dying”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.

  Marion Woodman

  Inspiration, Understanding, Suffering

  Marion Woodman (1985). “The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation”

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• Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2004). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation”, p.104, New World Library

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• You become what you behold.

  William Blake

  Inspiration, Recovery

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• And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choirs singing the hymns of time, intoning the praises of the firmament, revealing the secrets of the invisible.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspiration, Hymns, Silence

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• Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspiration, Names, Sage

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.13, New World Library

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• Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.

  Carl Jung

  Inspiration, Men, Mirrors

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• There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Philosophy, Inspiration, Dust

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Selected letters”

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• Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

  Carrie Fisher

  Recovery, Heaven, Sometimes

  "Wishful Drinking". Book by Carrie Fisher, ew.com. December 2, 2008.

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• If things go wrong, don't go with them.

  Roger Babson

  Life, Motivational, Recovery

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• Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Recovery, Ascent, Easy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “Collected Works”

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  As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Katharine Hepburn (1992). “Me: Stories of My Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

  Alice Miller

  Pain, Recovery, Anxiety

  Alice Miller (2008). “Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth”, p.126, Basic Books

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• Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

  James Russell Lowell

  Recovery, New Beginnings, Each Day

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.416

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• He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

  Horace

  Recovery, New Beginnings, Deeds Done

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.306, Delphi Classics

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