Best 1307 quotes in «addiction quotes» category

Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.

Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken.

Our [western] culture embraces sex addiction. If I drink too much or rack up credit-card debt or lose the rent in Vegas, that's bad. But if I have many lovers, that's good.

People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them....well it's killing me!

People are hungry for messages of hope and life. What are you broadcasting?

People are going to keep getting prescribed medication that is counter to what their real disease state is, which is addiction.

People fail forward to success.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for a short time. I didn't let go of my negative thoughts; I questioned them, and then they let go of me, and so did my addictions and depression.

Photography to me is an addiction. I get jittery after a couple of days without a camera. Everyone who knows me says I'm happiest when I'm shooting.

Pomegranate juice has staying power. It's not a fad. Once people have tasted POM Wonderful, they say they are addicted - and it's a good addiction to have.

Recovery is a bit like an addiction; you take it day by day. If you set yourself too many goalposts, you'll have problems.

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.

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

Racism is still America's greatest addiction. I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God.

Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.

reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.

Ryan took him out of Betty Ford after Redmond wanted to leave because he met a girl there. The girl was a heroin addict. She was the one who introduced him to the stuff.

Romantic love is an addiction.

Running is my addiction. It's always present. I'm constantly thinking about my next run.

Science is now documenting that it's not the objects of meditation that are important, it's the process of paying attention to them - the attending - that actually influences the organism in a whole range of different ways. The brain changes significantly enough to impact thought, emotion, and other biological functions. Today, people recognize that they're not going to find well-being from the outside, or from a pill; they're going to find it by looking inside. All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.

She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.

Shame is the root of all addictions.

Shopping and buying and getting and having comprise the Great American Addiction. No one is immune. When the underclass riots in this country they don't kill policemen and politicians, they steal merchandise. How embarrassing.

Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.

Show business can be an addiction. ... An audience would laugh at me one night, and I would chase that high for another three months.

She had all the best things wrong with her—incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She’s so lucky.

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.

Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention.

Some crave grief like strong drink.

Some are addicted to cigarettes, some, God forbid, to drugs, and some become addicted to money. They say that the worst addiction is to power. I have never felt that. I have never been addicted to anything

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

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.

Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

Soon you start craving that intense attention with the hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is withheld you probably turn sick, crazy and depleted not to mention resentful of the dealer who encourage this addiction in the first place but who now refuses to pony up the good stuff anymore despite that you know that he has it hidden somewhere God dammit because you know that he used to give it to you for free.

Sports and sex and movies are not inherently bad - But for you they're addictions, not enjoyments. You use them to distract you from what you know you should do. Break free!

So to me, what the drugs and addiction are saying is that I deserve to feel good, I'm allowed to take this because look how I was treated as a child. Our authority figures, particularly our parents are hypnotic. Their words are hypnotic literally to small children because of brain wave patterns.

So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.

Start announcing freedom from anything that’s holding you back. Freedom from addictions, freedom from loneliness, freedom from lack, freedom from struggle. You are prophesying your future. Your words are setting the direction for your life.

Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.

Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day, akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s. It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society - and that's the young and the poor.

Success is both an addiction and an enslavement.

Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!

That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people...That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.

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