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Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

Facing my addiction was one of the hardest things I've had to do in my life.

Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.

Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger.

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office.

Food, sex, and liquor create their own appetite.

Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular" medical literature. I fear to hope that its recognition spells progress.

For me, addiction comes down to basically where a pattern of behaviour has developed and that pattern of behaviour is becoming a very damaging cycle. It's sort of damaging your relationships, friends or lovers, it's damaging your own personal health and it's damaging for you and your workplace.

Forgetting someone is like getting over a hundred addictions everyday.

For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction.

Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?

For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

For many, the regressive belief in superstitions and miracles is an escape from the hardships of life. Once trapped into irrationalism, they become more incapable of mastering reality. It is a vicious circle, like an addiction. They become vulnerable to exploitation by astrologers, godmen, dubious pseudo-psychologists, corrupt politicians and the whole mega-industry of irrationalism.

For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.

From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I wrote a gazillion short stories that ran the gamut of human suffering - drug addiction, child abuse, terminal illness, loved ones dying by all manner of misfortune, etc. In hindsight, it's clear that I mistook the power of the situation for the power of the story.

Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized.

Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences.

Having observed the forces of all things natural and celestial and having examined by painstaking investigation the sympathy among those things, brings into the open powers hidden and stored away in nature; thus, magic links lower things (as if they were magical enticements) to the gifts of higher things...so that astonishing miracles thereby occur.

Have this Chet Baker movie coming out and in that situation, I went down the rabbit hole studying Chet Baker and being obsessed with the period and the music and the relationships and the dynamic, and everything, drug addiction. There was so much I wanted to get at to kind of get at the truth. With Regression, I was certainly in Alejandro's [Amenabar] hands.

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Heroin may be bad, but it sure as hell hasn't hurt my CD collection.

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.

How do you know when you're finished making love?

How important is it really that you feel satisfied right now for 2 minutes, compared to getting yourself free from addiction forever?

Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.

His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

I accept myself completely here and now and consciously experience everything I feel, think, say and do (including my emotion backed addictions) as a necessary part of my growth into higher consciousness.

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.

I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity.

I also had my own addiction to cocaine and heroin in my 20s. I knew that it was driven not by the things that the drug workers were telling me; in fact, I couldn't believe any drug information that was given to me by authorities because I knew from my own experience that it was wrong.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don't mind admitting any of them.

I am discovering how my consciousness dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didnt want to see my kids do the same thing

I am freeing myself from security, sensation and power addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life and thus destroy my serenity and keeps me from loving myself and others.

I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions.

I began my addiction when I was 12 years old. By the time 40, 45 years later, when it, you know, it threatened my life and maimed me in terms of my voice, I was so addicted that I was smoking four packs of cigarettes a day.

I am on an emotional roller coaster ride to survive and to conquer obesity, not only for myself but also for everyone that battles some kind of addiction.

I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.

I did a comedy with Al Franken about his character Stuart Smalley, which was really about alcoholism and addiction and codependency. It had some painful stuff in it. When we showed it to focus groups, some of them actually said, "If I want to see a dysfunctional family, I'll stay home.

I can't go long without you either, Eva. You're an addiction...my obsession.

I brought something back from those experiences [with drugs] which made me softer, open to other ideas. And I've learned from listening to other people talk about their experiences, from listening to Bill Hicks or reading Terrence McKenna or Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary. But there's always some dumb cop out there who says "We don't need another legal drug and there's psychological addiction and blah blah blah.

I could have gone for gambling or sex addiction,...But I went for obesity because of the tremendous impact it has.