Quotes of: Addiction Keyword

Addiction" might be the best word to explain the lostness that so deeply permeates society. Our addiction make us cling to what the world proclaims as the keys to self-fulfillment: accumulation of wealth and power; attainment of status and admiration...

The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

Black-and-white thinking is the addict's mentality, which can be a bar to recovery when one is still active. But an addict who finds the willingness can then rely on the same trait to stay clean: "Just don't drink," they say in AA. How's that going t...

Fat Boy Thin Man

Careful how you judge others. At some point you have been, or will be, all of them.

DIRTY WHITE BOY: One Addict's Lifelong Battle Against Heroin Addiction

When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy.

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure

We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.

Anne Wilson Schaef

Reading is an addiction, much like living and breathing is an addiction.

Jeffrey Michael

We know that you don't want to be a drunk and you don't want to be hooked on addictive drugs. You do it because you can't cope with your life without some sort of support, even if that support is damaging.

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure

AA purports to be open to anyone, as it is stated in Tradition Tree, "The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking," but it isn't open to everyone. It's open only to those who are willing to publicly declare themselves to be al...

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

Keith Richards

It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.

Robbie Williams

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...

Painkiller Addict: From Wreckage to Redemption - My True Story

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.

Lorna Luft

I have an addictive personality. I was addicted to computer games... and then all that obsessive nature just piled into music.

Chet Faker

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

W. H. Auden

Overeating is the addiction of choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions. It's a way of fucking yourself up while still remaining fully functional, because you have to. Fat people aren't ind...

How to Be a Woman

When nothing else worked, we created a holistic, hand-tailored program that saved Pax's life. At Passages, he and I use what we learned in curing him to help others discover the roots of their addiction or alcoholism and break free.

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure

If I were to create a word that more accurately describes alcoholism and addiction, I would say it was dependencyism. Sounds silly, doesn't it? Yet it's no sillier than the word alcoholism. The reason alcoholism no longer sounds silly to you is becau...

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

Mitch Hedberg

I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

Hugo Chavez

If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can't stop without physical or psychological distress (you have unpleasant physical and...

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure

The avant-garde is now an arrière-garde.

Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past