Best 83 quotes in «addict quotes» category

Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become. Don't associate with fools, else your ancestors will be insulted. Don't be addicted to wine, else your pocket will be empty. Don't be drunk, else you'll be attacked.

His head was bent on one side and he seemed lost in an opium dream, looking lovingly upon the world – men, animals, the carts, carriages, palanquins, all - as they passed by. Or perhaps he was looking upon nothing, for his gaze did not so much as flicker when Firangia came to a stop and greeted him.

Homelessness is frequently met with many mental health challenges.

Homelessness is not a choice, but rather a journey that many find themselves in.

Habits are good if you have the habit of the best.

Homelessness is stigmatized by society, the media, and the general public.

I have never heard of an electromagnetically hypersensitive person recovering from the condition using shielding and Faraday cages, they just seem to become social lepers due to their increasing reactivity to the city environment and addicts to their shielded environment.

If you know of someone who is homeless; or by chance you are homeless yourself; you are not alone.

If there is money to be made, those who have no moral backbone will surely take advantage of another.

It is not a coincidence that you and your partner are together. You each have something to learn from one another …. The most important thing you can do to support your partner in his [or her] recovery is to show that you are truly supportive and on his [or her] side.

It is seldom that domestic violence is an isolated episode; rather it is comprised of a number of episodes over an extended period of time.

It is essential that children who are directly or indirectly affected by domestic violence receive psychological care.

It’s our generation’s crack cocaine. People are addicted. We experience withdrawels. We are so driven by this drugs, getting just one hit elicits truly pecular reactions. I’m talking about Likes. « Rameet Chawla » They’ve inconspicuously emerged as the first digital drug to dominate our culture.

It's too cold outside For angels to fly An angel will die Covered in white Closed eye And hoping for a better life This time, we'll fade out tonight Straight down the line

It wasn't as if crack was getting great press in the South Bronx in 1999, but it took a particular kind of idiot to wake up one day and say, 'Angel dust is a product I've heard nothing but good about, and it's about time I was involved.

I recovered from recovering so no longer celebrate not doing bad things to defend myself as good. I added new bad for good measure.

I was at this guy's house. I met this girl who was hanging out there. She was real pretty, she had brown eyes and dark hair. She was soft-spoken and real nice. I know that everyone has their own life and they can do what they want and you shouldn't think anything of it or anything. But man, I couldn't help but flinch a little when I saw all those needle marks in her arm, they looked so sore. Hateful little holes. I wanted to say something, but I didn't.

May you begin living beyond.

I was trapped. The day would be hell. I would suffer. I felt I might not survive. I needed a dark, quiet room, my videos, my bed, my pills. I hadn't been this far from home in many months. I was frightened.

Not all good things are good for us.

See, I am very dependent... on beauty and peace of the world... on loyalty of friends... on love in families... on happiness and health of children. And I do not want to be free as long as I have it all...

Someone who is trying to be sober is often trying to work out deeper emotional issues and is attempting to undo years of habitual behavior. When you reduce recovery to just abstinence, it simplifies what is really a much more complex issue.

...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 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.

I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat. That was until I became one...

Love is the purest religion and the most destructive addiction!

No one wants to be entrapped by his or her addictive habit...

Quinton: I think if every person had a Nova Reed in this world, then life would be a little sunnier.

Remember what I used to tel you when you were a little girl? ‘A fool and her money soon part.’ Current-day translation? Stop pissing away your assets at Bloomingdale’s.

Some, they didn't make it. The temptation just too strong. How can darkness cloud the mind To what I know as wrong?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Addicts are ALWAYS irrational when it comes to their habits.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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