Romantic love is an addiction.
Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.
How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!
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.
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.
Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.
Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. I know people think it's a disease... If you have a brain tumor, if you have cancer, that's a disease. To say that an addiction is a disease is not fair to the real diseases of the world.
The only thing I'm addicted to right now is winning.
The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can.
Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.
People fail forward to success.
The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.
The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never understand that.
No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.
Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.
There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.
Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.
Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just wasn't fun anymore. The drugs had become a part of my routine. Something to wake me up. Something to help me sleep. Something to calm my nerves. There was a time when I was able to wake up, go to sleep, and have fun without a pill or a line to help me function. These days it felt like I might have a nervous breakdown if I didn't have them.
Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.
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