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Y'all think a body be who you is, but it ain't nothing but a motherfucking sack of meat.

YANNI “JOHNNY” BACOLAS: I would always tell him, “Layne [Staley], why don’t you take off, go to some deserted island, hire the best counselors, and just kick this shit? Go for six months if you have to.” And his rebuttal was, “Johnny, I have celebrity status and I have a lot of money. I could fly planes out to deliver me the dope if I wanted to — and that’s what I would do. I can’t escape.

Yet they enjoy the high. In the surest sign that selenium actually makes them go mad, cattle grow addicted to locoweed despite its awful side effects and eat it to the exclusion of anything else. It’s animal meth.

You are the one addiction I can’t quite shake. You stimulate my mind and increase my heart rate.

You burn bright and you burn hard, like a fire in a dumpster, and nobody is so worried about you burning as they are worried about the fire spreading.

you calls it Possesiveness,i calls it Fear Of Loosing You.

You can get addicted to trouble if you're not careful.

You can have a life with purpose or you can have a life with addition. You can’t have both.

You can numb the pain, but that hasn’t erased your problem, it’s just given it time to grow.

You can't "let go". You can't "detach with love". You can't let them "hit bottom". You can't seem to implement the strategies you have learned when you are faced with your adult child's chaos and anxiety. When you try to do this, it makes you physically and emotionally ill, and the anxiety and fear becomes unbearable.

You can't solve a spiritual problem with a physical solution.

You didn’t become an alcoholic by taking your first drink, you became one by taking your next drink and the one after that and...

You don’t recover by stopping the old, but by starting the new. You’ll go back to your old ways unless you create new ways.

You enter the cave of the bear to become its master or its meat.

You grow bored of these shrines, and you abandon them because you know for a fact that you will worship anything you kneel before. Like God. Like cock. Like porcelain.

You give the shirt off your back, no questions asked, and you stand alone at the cavernous mouth of your suburban closet— your entire life spent wondering where your clothes went.

You have chosen to exist, and more than just exist-- you've been chosen to share in the Universal consciousness.

You have to take it off the table,' Jeremy said, finally. 'It's always going to be an option, otherwise. You're going to have to give it up and mean it, or it'll always be your solution when things go bad.

You’ll go back to your old ways unless you create new ways.

You know when you send a text message to someone and you don't get a response right away, you feel depressed? You send a text message to someone you really like and you get a response right away you feel happy? You feel happy, the body, it creates the chemical dopamine, the dopamine, it goes through your blood and you become addicted to that dopamine rush, and you associate that dopamine rush with the happy feeling of receiving the text, and that's why you got people sending 3,000 fucking text messages a day, right, we're not even paying attention to what we're saying anymore it's just like a, like a morphine drip, right, it's like a dopamine drip! HAPPY BUTTONS! HAPPY BUTTONS! HAPPY BUTTONS! TIME TO PLAY WITH THE HAPPY BUTTONS!

You know you are a human when a beautiful image appearing on television/computer/smartphone/tab screen appears more alive than a living being. Basically, we are stupid.

Your addiction is not your identity, but you won't know that until you're in recovery; that's when the two separate.

Your addiction has a voice. A voice that constantly tells you to keep on feeding them.

Your addiction is not you, but it feels like you because you’ve spent so much intimate time together.

Your addiction to daily distraction denies you of effectiveness

Your brain feels good to look at something at a distance, but the moment you receive it, that's it - in a short while your brain gets used to that specific trigger of possessing that specific object, then it keeps craving for a new trigger - new stimulant, and if you do not give your brain that specific new trigger, your brain will rebel against you, in the same way as an addict's brain rebels against the person.

You preach cleanliness, so I try to keep my room clean, but I feel no closer to God, and I guess that’s okay because he doesn’t know who he’s fucking with anyway.

Your addiction has a voice. A voice that constantly tells you to keep on feeding it.

Your decision to kill your addiction will become a reality only if you believe and reinforce the fact that you have the capacity to do it.

Your only vice is yourself. The worst of all. The really incurable one.

Your lowest moment and life can be your best if you survive it and learn from it

You’re not addicted to a drink or a drug; you’re addicted to the chemical cocktail your brain serves up when you feed your addiction.

Your identity is not in who you can be. It is in who you always have been

Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.

Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.

Addiction is more malleable than you know. When people come to me for therapy, they often ask me whether their behavior constitutes a real addiction (or whether they are really alcoholic, etc.). My answer is that this is not the important question. The important questions are how many problems is the involvement causing you, how much do you want to change it, and how can we go about change?

Addiction is not just for bad people or scumbags - it's a universal disease.

Addictions and mental disorders are like a disease, and they need treatment.

Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.

Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were [...] less intelligent than goldfish.

Addiction is a health issue, not a social issue, not a crime, not a legal issue.

Addiction is a very compelling subject for literature - especially now that it's nearly impossible to come out of adult experience without some addiction - to substances, sure, but also to love, sex, success, failure, power.

Addiction is when you fall in love with a drug instead of a child or a lover and the learning that takes part in that part of the brain is designed by evolution to get us to persist despite negative consequences to do what we need to do - because I don't know anybody who could survive a relationship or parenting if not for the ability to persist despite negative consequences. The problem is when that gets misdirected to a drug and then you can find yourself in some very negative and potentially deadly situations.

[Addiction's] not about placating the bad dog - it's about feeding the good dog. You still have to feed the bad dog, but only enough so that the ASPCA doesn't bring you up on charges.

Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc.)

Addiction is a revolt of the soul.

Addiction is a symptom of not growing up.

Addiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we are choosing to live.

Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.

Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.