Addiction Quotes - Page 29

• I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.

  Annie Dillard

  Recovery, New Beginnings, New Day New Beginning

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.4, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Strong, Real, Recovery

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.133, Shambhala Publications

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• All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence. For many, that addiction cannot be overcome without help. The tragic pattern is so familiar. It begins with curiosity that is fueled by its stimulation and is justified by the false premise that when done privately, it does no harm to anyone else. For those lulled by this lie, the experimentation goes deeper, with more powerful stimulations, until the trap closes and a terribly immoral, addictive habit exercises its vicious control.

  Richard G. Scott

  Powerful, Lying, Exercise

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• The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to its influence. If one is obedient, the priesthood can show how to break a habit and even erase an addiction. Holders of the priesthood have that authority and should employ it to combat evil influences.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Evil, Influence, Habit

  "Cleansing the Inner Vessel". Article by Boyd K. Packer, www.lds.org. 2010.

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• Love makes us instinctively reach out to God and other people. Lust, on the other hand, is anything but godly and celebrates self-indulgence. Love comes with open hands and open heart; lust comes with only an open appetite. These are just some of the reasons that prostituting the true meaning of love-either with imagination or another person-is so destructive. It destroys that which is second only to our faith in God-namely, faith in those we love. It shakes the pillars of trust upon which present-or future-love is built, and it takes a long time to rebuild that trust when it is lost.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Heart, Godly, Love Is

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• The plague of pornography is swirling about us as never before. Pornography brings a vicious wake of immorality, broken homes, and broken lives. Pornography will sap spiritual strength to endure. Pornography is much like quicksand. You can become so easily trapped and overcome as soon as you step into it that you do not realize the severe danger. Most likely you will need assistance to get out of the quicksand of pornography. But how much better it is never to step into it. I plead with you to be careful and cautious.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Spiritual, Home, Broken

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• Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless. This is a terrible deception. Pornography is as addictive as cocaine or any illegal drug.

  James E. Faust

  Philosophy, Drug, Deception

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• Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.

  Nikki Sixx

  Giving Up, Long, Tuesday

  Nikki Sixx (2007). “The Heroin Diaries: Ten Year Anniversary Edition: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years.

  Columba Bush

  Daughter, Mother, Fighting

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• We have tax revenue that's going to allow us to look in a much more comprehensive way at intervening in addiction.

  John Hickenlooper

  Marijuana, Looks, Way

  "Colorado's Governor on Marijuana Legalization" by Conor Friedersdorf, www.theatlantic.com. July 1, 2014.

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• Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Growth, Cost, Growing

  Kenneth E. Boulding (1985). “Collected Papers: Toward the Twenty-First Century : Political Economy, Social Systems, and World Peace”, University Press of Colorado

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• Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.

  Karl G. Maeser

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them

  J. Harold Smith

  Wisdom, Work, Mistake

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• I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions.

  R. J. Reynolds

  Believe, Desire, Typical

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• We are basically in the nicotine business. . . . Effective control of nicotine in our products should equate to a significant product performance and cost advantage.

  R. J. Reynolds

  Cost, Significant, Nicotine

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• [A]ny desired additional nicotine 'kick' could be easily obtained through pH regulation.

  R. J. Reynolds

  Regulation, Nicotine, Kicks

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• People are hungry for messages of hope and life. What are you broadcasting?

  Morgan Brittany

  Inspiration, People, Messages

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• Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Inspiration, Environment, Will Power

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• Having observed the forces of all things natural and celestial and having examined by painstaking investigation the sympathy among those things, brings into the open powers hidden and stored away in nature; thus, magic links lower things (as if they were magical enticements) to the gifts of higher things...so that astonishing miracles thereby occur.

  Giambattista della Porta

  Inspiration, Miracle, Magic

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• Every day is a fresh beginning. Every morn is the world made anew.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  New Beginnings, Recovery, World

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• A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what the activity.

  Jody Dean

  Giving Up, People, Healthy

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• Even when we get what we addictively want, our wanting to keep things that way automatically creates a new addiction.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Spiritual, Want, Way

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• Not why the addiction, but why the pain.

  Gabor Mate

  Pain, Recovery

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• I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

  Rob Lowe

  Inspirational, Recovery, Sobriety

  "Lowe profile" by Jessica Berens, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2001.

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• In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.

  Billie Holiday

  Country, Love You, Recovery

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.220, Broadway Books

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