Best 83 quotes in «addict quotes» category

...Studies have found that children who witness abuse are more likely to accept relationships that are abusive.

The lack of culpability of the perpetrator and his or her transference of blame onto alcohol or other substances only perpetuates the violent behaviors.

The bleak optimism has skewed the overall views of our societal perspectives on substance abuse.

The legal and judicial system view substance use as a criminal matter; while the mental health system has been fighting for generations to change that particular perspective.

The enabler will love the addict into darkness. The addict becomes a shadow of the person they once were. The enablers love is blind and selfish. Blind, because they cannot see the selfishness, when they cradle their own emotions over the addict’s recovery. It will always be tough love, support and lots of praying to keep an addict clean. The underlined reason for the substance abuse can only be found when the addict is thinking clearly.

The life of an "out-of-control" addict often resembles an amusement ride.

The life of the Addict is always the same. There is no excitement, no glamour, no fun. There are no good times, there is no joy, there is no happiness. There is no future and no escape. There is only an obsession. An all-encompassing, fully enveloping, completely overwhelming obsession. To make light of it, brag about it, or revel in the mock glory of it is not in any way, shape or form related to its truth, and that is all that matters, the truth.

There should never be any blame or shame in being homeless.

The past does not define me, it ignites me. The past is not a piece of me, it has placed me

The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to—instead of them—change reality.

He was like chocolate-covered heroin, and I was an addict through and through.

We are a society of excuses, shame and blame; we avoid accountability and often project our responsibility when involving domestic violence.

Things are at their worst when the addict’s hardest job is manipulating the people around them.

You cannot fix people who will not take feedback, because from their perspective, they do not have a problem.

Addicts are ALWAYS irrational when it comes to their habits.

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

I don't t drink coffee, but I'm a tea addict.

I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie.

I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.

I drink about 30 cups of tea a day. I'm a complete tea addict.

I’m a big Ping-Pong addict. I love it.

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success. Thankfully, there's no rehab for success.

I'm an addict for underwear.

I was a functional addict.

I'm not looking to do anything for rehab as far as addicts, because that's not really what I do.

I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.

I've never done anything that I felt was crossing the line for me. But everybody has to make that decision individually. Like, I've never shot heroin to play a heroin addict. I've never turned a trick to play a prostitute. Whatever. You draw the line where you feel it could be harmful.

I was an addict. That's why, ... I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy.

I think a lot of ex-addicts. They find a lot of humor in what they did because they lived through it.

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

I've been a practicing alcoholic and drug addict for most of my life.

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

Love exists in powder. Love exists in pills. We are all addicts.

She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.

stick at it like a benni addict

The worst thing that could have happened to me as an addict was having money.

The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.

The reality is that in much of industrialized societies, we are completely addicted to comfort. We are a society of addicts.

The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.

While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

Twitter is crack for media addicts.

What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to.

Black-and-white thinking is the addict's mentality, which can be a bar to recovery when one is still active. But an addict who finds the willingness can then rely on the same trait to stay clean: "Just don't drink," they say in AA. How's that going to work for an addicted eater? Food addicts have to take the tiger out of the cage three times a day. I've read that some drinkers have tried "controlled drinking," and it hasn't been very successful. Eaters don't just have to try it; they must practice it to survive. Having a food plan is an attempt to address that, and having clear boundaries is a key to its working. But the comfort of all or nothing is just out of reach. ... I'm saying that food addicts, unlike alcoholics and may others, have both to try for perfection and to accept that perfection is unattainable, and that the only tool left is a wholesome discipline. The problem is, if we had any clue about wholesome discipline, we wouldn't be addicts.

Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?

Addiction denied is recovery delayed.

An obsessive is an addict-in-waiting.

As sinners we are like addicts - addicted to ourselves and our own projects. The theology of glory simply seeks to give those projects eternal legitimacy. The remedy for the theology of glory, therefore, cannot be encouragement and positive thinking, but rather the end of the addictive desire. Luther says it directly: "The remedy for curing desire does not lie in satisfying it, but in extinguishing it." So we are back to the cross, the radical intervention, end of the life of the old and the beginning of the new. Since the theology of glory is like addiction and not abstract doctrine, it is a temptation over which we have no control in and of ourselves, and from which we must be saved. As with the addict, mere exhortation and optimistic encouragement will do no good. It may be intended to build up character and self-esteem, but when the addict realizes the impossibility of quitting, self-esteem degenerates all the more. The alcoholic will only take to drinking in secret, trying to put on the facade of sobriety. As theologians of glory we do much the same. We put on a facade of religious propriety and piety and try to hide or explain away or coddle our sins.... As with the addict there has to be an intervention, an act from without. In treatment of alcoholics some would speak of the necessity of 'bottoming out,' reaching the absolute bottom where one can no longer escape the need for help. Then it is finally evident that the desire can never be satisfied, but must be extinguished. In matters of faith, the preaching of the cross is analogous to that intervention. It is an act of God, entirely from without. It does not come to feed the religious desires of the Old Adam and Eve but to extinguish them. They are crucified with Christ to be made new.

Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine. But do I? Am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago.