Addiction Quotes - Page 39

• One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.

  Lorna Luft

  Traits

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• I think I have an adrenaline addiction, no question about that.

  Tom Waits

  Thinking, Adrenaline

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• Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour I feel like saying to them: "You simply don't understand - how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?" But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully.

  Will Self

  Children, People, Behaviour

  "Will Self: The trouble with my blood" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness. They are the exact opposite of drugs. They promote questioning , they promote consciousness, they promote value examinations, they promote the reconstruction of behavioral patterns.

  Terence McKenna

  Opposites, Drug, Perception

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• Pot is like a gang of Mexican bandits in your brain. They wait for thoughts to come down the road, then tie them up and thrash them.

  Kevin Rooney

  Ties, Mexican, Waiting

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• Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.

  Pierre Dukan

  Thinking, America, Sugar

  "The Saturday interview: Dukan diet creator Pierre Dukan". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.

  David Shi

  Simple, Inner Peace, Consumerism

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• Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically harmless but psychically enslaving. A community can choose between Methadone and "cold turkey"-between maintaining its addiction to alien energy and kicking it in painful cramps-but no society can have a population that is hooked on progressively larger numbers of energy slaves and whose members are also autonomously active.

  Ivan Illich

  Turkeys, Kicking It, Numbers

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• Sex addiction is a subject that should be discussed

  Carey Mulligan

  Sex, Should, Subjects

  Source: collider.com

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• If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book.

  Charles Adams

  Book, Writing, Different

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• Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at school and work, lack of savings, failure to exercise - are in some degree a failure of self-control.

  Roy Baumeister

  Educational, Pregnancy, School

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• At a time of record energy prices, when we are trying to break the very addiction the president talked about in his speech, it does not make any sense to cut funding for energy efficiency programs and research.

  Bob Menendez

  Cutting, Trying, President

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• Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Smart, Opportunity, Life Wisdom

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• I have an addictive personality. Sport is my drug of choice these days. It's one of the best drugs there is. It keeps you fit and healthy, even if, in the case of ironman, it pushes your body to the limit. The word "addiction" comes with negative connotations, but it doesn't have to be a damaging impulse. It's all about channeling your craving into something positive.

  Chrissie Wellington

  Motivational, Sports, Choices

  Chrissie Wellington (2012). “A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• Once you get that addiction of realizing what you can do, you want to take that to the next level.

  Gina Carano

  Mma, Next Level, Levels

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• Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very pleasant, but it's familiar.

  Lauren Mackler

  Thinking, Optimism, Negative

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• The pains that you suffer, the loneliness that you encounter, the experiences that are disappointing or distressing, the addictions and seeming pitfalls of your life are each doorways to awareness. Each offers you an opportunity to see beyond the illusion that serves as the balancing and growth of your soul.

  Gary Zukav

  Pain, Loneliness, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Apr 16, 2015

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• Marijuana addiction is a serious problem

  Chris Christie

  Marijuana, Serious, Problem

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• This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It is, in essence, the same intimacy known in a mother’s arms; in those who are deprived of the experience, the need freezes and, distorted, it can rent a life. All addiction has as its foundation skewed yearning for the same transcendence. For me, the spell of the material was broken by my brother’s death; after his suicide, all I wanted was the renewal of my connection to the intangible.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Mother, Suicide, Brother

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• Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all.

  Criss Jami

  Winning, Loses

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.72, Criss Jami

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• Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Ideas, Office, Political

  1958 The Affluent Society

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• By characterizing the use of illegal drugs as quasi-legal, state-sanctioned, Saturday afternoon fun, legalizers destabilize the societal norm that drug use is dangerous. They undercut the goals of stopping the initiation of drug use to prevent addiction.... Children entering drug abuse treatment routinely report that they heard that 'pot is medicine' and, therefore, believed it to be good for them.

  Andrea Barthwell

  Fun, Children, Medicine

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• Provocative. Striking. Rachel Resnick is a virtuoso on the page. Her fearless examination of the desperate thirst to find love is guaranteed to break your heart. Yet her cool-eyed analysis of the roots of this addiction inspires hope that through committed self-understanding, maybe each of us can change toxic patterns, whatever they may be.

  Samantha Dunn

  Heart, Love Is, Self

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• If, nevertheless, textbooks of pharmacology legitimately contain a chapter on drug abuse and drug addiction, then, by the same token, textbooks of gynecology and urology should contain a chapter on prostitution; textbooks of physiology, a chapter on perversion; textbooks of genetics, a chapter on the racial inferiority of Jews and Negroes.

  Thomas Szasz

  Gynecology, Drug, Abuse

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2003). “Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushers”, p.11, Syracuse University Press

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• The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide conceals the fact that homosexuals are a group of medically stigmatized and socially persecuted individuals. ... Their anguished cries of protest are drowned out by the rhetoric of therapy just as the rhetoric of salvation drowned out the [cries] of heretics.

  Thomas Szasz

  Suicide, Drug, Facts

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.168, Syracuse University Press

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