Quotes of: Addiction Keyword

It will take centuries to disconnect people from an addiction like religion; no matter how bad and disastrous it could be, but addiction is the worst of all.

M.F. Moonzajer

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

Jay Roach

We recognize that you've used substances to try to regain your lost balance, to try to feel the way you did before the need arose to use addictive drugs or alcohol. We know that you use substances to alter your mood, to cover up your sadness, to ease...

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure

Teen "addiction" to social media is a new extension of typical human engagement. Their use of social media as their primary site of sociality is most often a byproduct of cultural dynamics that have nothing to do with technology, including parental r...

It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens

No matter how hard you try to create a story that's completely fictional, parts of your own experience are bound to surface.

Chain Mail: Addicted to You

If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure

...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

Infinite Jest

This book is about a salvation that takes place within our unknowing and dissatisfaction,

The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction

Our real beliefs are generally not to be found at the level of ego.

The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction

Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.

The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction

Imperfect parenting does not cause addiction. If that were so, everyone would be one.

The Joey Song: A Mother's Story of Her Son's Addiction

No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addic...

Lullaby

I never lie ― I am a blatantly truthful person about almost everything. My addiction (or disease as some call it) always lies. I have had very good relationships, but the addict in me always fucked them up. I fall in love quickly, it's a high that...

Your Voice in My Head

I never met an addict who came from a nice home . I've met addicts that came from families that had money and nice houses. But never from a nice home.

Dope

Heroin was a coping mechanism that I had used to deal with my underlying fears. They were the real problems; heroin wasn't the culprit, my fears were.

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure

It is ethanol that everyone is after when they drink alcoholic beverages. That is what gives us the euphoric feeling, and that is what all vendors of alcoholic drinks are selling.

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure

It takes a strong person to stand up to his or her fate and overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of freedom and success, but I believe in you.

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure

There is no cell culture for depression. You can't see it on a bone scan or an x-ray. Not everyone with depression will show the same behavioral symptoms.

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure

Believe that is cure is possible for you. Discover and heal the underlying causes with a holistic recovery program. Adopt a philosophy based on what is true in the Universe.

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure

What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol.

The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction

If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.

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