Addiction Quotes - Page 31

• I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.

  Mick Jagger

  People, Drug, Understanding

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• Onstage it was always comfortable for me because that's where I felt at home. Offstage it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage and unfortunately, my shyness and my inability to communicate and really have great conversations or be part of the gang - in inverted commas - led me to the drug addiction, which, you know, blighted my life for 16 years because I thought by doing that it would make me join in.

  Elton John

  Home, Years, Drug

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 23, 2013.

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• The work became like the drug addiction, the clothes, anything in my life. It became - it's become an addiction. I'm addicted to working.

  Elton John

  Clothes, Drug, Drug Addiction

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 1, 2014.

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• Unhealthy cultures create addiction. Healthy cultures create social bonds.

  Simon Sinek

  Healthy, Culture, Social

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• Even if I remember the first time perfectly, I don't remember the beginning at all. I mean: the beginning of addiction. It's hard to say when it becomes a problem; it sneaks up on you like a sun shower.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Mean, Firsts, Sun

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2007). “More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Take a chance! All life is a chance

  Dale Carnegie

  Overcoming Addiction, Risk, Chance

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.95, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• It's been so long since I've really truly felt what it's like to live life without substances to help. Massive struggle that's natural to one's health, but with addiction in my blood I play the cards I was dealt.

  Macklemore

  Struggle, Live Life, Blood

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• It is in this space of mastery over paradigms that people throw off addictions, live in constant joy, bring down empires, get locked up or burned at the stake or crucified or shot, and have impacts that last for millennia.

  Donella Meadows

  Impact, Space, People

  Donella Meadows (2008). “Thinking in Systems: A Primer”, p.165, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• I talk to my kids about my mothers energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were.

  Lemon Andersen

  Mother, Father, Kids

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• Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

  Susan Cheever

  Substance, Mood, Alterations

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• reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.

  Richard J. Foster

  Rejects

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.

  Ann Voskamp

  Stress, Struggle, Self

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• I think the scariest addiction on this planet is to alcohol. Because alcohol is a very addictive drug, and it ruins families, it ruins relationships. And it is socially acceptable, and it is easy to find. Controlled substances, other drugs are more difficult to get, and it's a crime to... to buy them. But alcohol is everywhere. And if you are unfortunate enough to become addicted to it, it can be disastrous. And there is still a stigma attached to alcohol addiction, or addiction in general. It is perceived as... an addict is perceived as somebody of weak moral fiber

  Brian Molko

  Thinking, Moral Fiber, Alcohol

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• Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Real, Color, Process

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• All people talk of money sometimes, everywhere. But not for all people, everywhere, is money the addiction, the obsession, the stimulant, that it seems to be in New York. It is a large part of the clamor, and it is the voice - quite literally - of the man in the street.

  Marya Mannes

  New York, Men, Voice

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• the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

  Rebecca West

  Drinking, Alcohol, Rewards

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.373, Open Road Media

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• An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.

  Marion Woodman

  Soul, Trying, Body

  Marion Woodman (1993). “Conscious Femininity: Interviews with Marion Woodman”

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• Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!

  Hannah More

  Pain, Strange, Pleasure

  Hannah More (1847). “The Complete Works of Hannah More”, p.179

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• By the Reagan era, the 'culture of poverty' had become a cornerstone of conservative ideology: poverty was caused not by low wages or a lack of jobs but by bad attitudes and faulty lifestyles. The poor were dissolute, promiscuous, prone to addiction and crime, unable to 'defer gratification' or possibly even set an alarm clock. The last thing they could be trusted with was money.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Jobs, Attitude, Alarms

  "Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich, American Poverty, 50 Years Later". www.tomdispatch.com. March 15, 2012.

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• Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Sobriety, World, Today

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.10, Random House

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• Once you've been overweight you never want to be overweight again, so you keep going, keep going, like for any addiction. Health can be an addiction, it doesn't have to be drugs or alcohol.

  Craig David

  Alcohol, Drug, Want

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• My father taught me to not fear anything. Having said that, much of my addiction to alcohol and drugs was tied to fear: fear of flying, fear of talking to women, etc. I conquered those fears years ago.

  Derek Sanderson

  Father, Talking, Years

  "Q&A: 10 Questions With Hockey Legend Derek Sanderson". "George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight ", www.cbc.ca. October 27, 2012.

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• I carry a strong anti-drug message, and it's important young people especially hear a "real" story about addiction and how it affects not only the addict but also the people who love him/her, rather than "just say no."

  Ellen Hopkins

  Strong, Real, People

  Source: ncac.org

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• Addiction is rarely conquered alone.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Source: monsterlibrarian.com

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• Women's genetic celebrity power magnifies men's protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men's addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or in the denial stage thus we either don't see it, or when confronted, deny it.

  Warren Farrell

  Husband, Men, Inspire

  "Why Men Earn More". Book by Warren Farrell, 2005.

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