Addiction Quotes - Page 6

• Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

  Richard L. Evans

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have a writing addiction.

  Prince

  Writing

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• It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Dream, Coffee, Character

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• Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.

  Judith Wright

  Seductive, Culture, Spirit

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• First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Funny, New Year, Drinking

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2011). “On Booze (New Directions Pearls)”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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  Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Money, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Cover Ups, Ends

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.152, New World Library

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• Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

  Joseph Conrad

  Courage, Cheer Up, Army

  Joseph Conrad (2002). “Typhoon and Other Tales”, p.64, Oxford University Press, USA

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• What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Success, Anger, Inspiration

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• Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Being Happy, Time

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.213, Penguin

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• I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.

  Craig Ferguson

  Recovery, Thinking, Alcohol

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• It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with.

  Fergie

  Break, Hardest

  "Celebrities Who Have Battled Addiction", www.foxnews.com. September 2006.

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• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Drinking, Ignorance, Stupid People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.110, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Funny, Pain, Memories

  Edgar Allan Poe, Simon Marsden (1988). “Visions of Poe: a personal selection of Edgar Allan Poe's stories and poems”, Michael Joseph

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• You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.

  Andrew Jackson

  Blessing, Pay The Price, Wish

  Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.436

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• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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• It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Decision, Language, Poet

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• Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

  Anne Frank

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Desire

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.792, Hamilton Books

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• One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.

  Brendan Behan

  Irish Drinking, Enough, Thousand

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• If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mean, Men, Lasts

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never understand that.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Drug, Hell, Rage

  "Celebs who've complained about dieting" By Olivia Allin, www.cnn.com. April 27, 2010.

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• We tend to get what we expect.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Clever, Positive Thinking, Expectations

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• Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

  Jacques Prevert

  Positive, Happiness, Happy

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• What was so painful about Amy’s death is that I know that there is something I could have done. I could have passed on to her the solution that was freely given to me. Don’t pick up a drink or drug, one day at a time. It sounds so simple; it actually is simple but it isn’t easy; it requires incredible support and fastidious structuring.

  Russell Brand

  Simple, Support, Drug

  "Russell Brand: my life without drugs". www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2013.

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