Best 1307 quotes in «addiction quotes» category

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.

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.

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

reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.

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

Romantic love is an addiction.

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.

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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

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.

Some crave grief like strong drink.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

Success is both an addiction and an enslavement.

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.

Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a smoke, or dying for a smoke in the oncology wing of a hospital. The tobacco companies have not paid nearly enough for the killing.

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

The abuse of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that isn't really physical at its foundation.. What we are looking for is pure joy rather than mere sensation, or even oblivion of sensation. Addiction is unrecognized spiritual craving.

The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live with the darkness of fear, oppression, and threats. When all its attempts to move the adult to heed its story have failed, it resorts to the language of symptoms to make itself heard. Enter addiction, psychosis, criminality.

The Bible says that if we're going to boast about anything, it should glorify God. I'll boast about all of my faults, I'll boast about all of my addictions that God has conquered, I'll boast about everything that God has conquered in my life, but there's just certain things that I'll never talk about.

The Drug War is an addiction, really.

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.