Addiction Family Quotes

#1. My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.

Robin Williams

#2. I don't know a family that isn't touched by some sort of addiction.

Jess Walter

#3. Bugrit! Millennium Hand and Shrimp

Terry Pratchett

#4. We, at least, are not loyal men: we confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest labourer in Ireland today than for any, even the most virtuous, descendant of the long array of murderers, adulterers and madmen who have sat upon the throne of England.

James Connolly

#5. Any addiction has the potential of becoming self-terrorizing. But addiction to reading and leading a family life never become self-terrorizing. These two are addictions that make you more civilized.

PARESH P AJMERA

#6. In all of your living, don't forget to live.

Ricky Maye

#7. Things that cannot long be kept secret: death in the family, the loss of a ring, corruption of the spirit, boredom, illicit love. Sickness. Addiction. Pregnancy. Within the pure white wimple of her beekeeping suit, wrapped in buzzing,

Catherynne M Valente

#8. The process of recovering from addictiveness happens at a deeper level of consciousness and through feeling our pain without using old addictive fixes. There is no escaping that getting in touch with our original pain is the touchstone to mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.

Christopher Dines

#9. Hitting bottom is an inside job - it's something that happens within our consciousness.

Christopher Dines

#10. I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.

Jack Nicholson

#11. Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.

Dale Archer

#12. Sometimes people go through a lifetime of pain by holding a secret that could have changed everything. It is an intoxicating addiction, an act of dominance to know that you hold something in your grip that could have changed the life of a person you detest.

Amit Sharma

#13. There is good weird and good strange and bad weird and bad strange. Your Daddy is good weird and good strange.

Roger Hamlet

#14. Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.

Stephen King

#15. Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap rising in the tree, putting forth new green shoots of life.

Caryll Houselander

#16. Twelve "shame categories" have emerged from my research: Appearance and body image Money and work Motherhood/fatherhood Family Parenting Mental and physical health Addiction Sex Aging Religion Surviving trauma Being stereotyped or labeled

Brene Brown

#17. Always make your familial environment a safe and inviting place.

Asa Don Brown

#18. As those who have learned to rule their own mind will attest, misfortune is a state of mind long before it becomes a miserable circumstance.

Guy Finley

#19. To be the authentic is to be detached and stand aside from oneself and the work so that the working process can take on an untrammeled life of its own. Labored self-involvement, contrivance, ulterior motives, even the extraordinary facility that one may have, must be let go.

Joshua L. Goldberg

#20. I am here for readers to see parts of themselves during my dark days, but also for a better way of living in my triumphs and gained wisdom.

Theia Mey

#21. It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso

Patsy Asuncion

#22. Making my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival.

Sarah Silverman

#23. I go to therapy a lot. And I'm - I'm open about that, and I try to get the help so that I - so that I can cope and - and make my way in life and with my family.

Howie Mandel

#24. I think of drug dealers like I think of my father - never really there when you want them to be.

Kris Kidd

#25. People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

James Taylor