Addictive Behaviour Quotes

#1. It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

Gabor Mate

#2. When you do pratikraman after conflict, the conflict is erased. When you give rise to new conflicts, the energies that had arisen will disappear again.

Dada Bhagwan

#3. Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.

Patrick Rothfuss

#4. Scores of high-powered men and women are addicted to substances or destructive addictive patterns of behaviour. As a matter of fact, it is easier to hide one's addiction while maintaining a high-powered position compared to the addicts and alcoholics we see sleeping on street corners.

Christopher Dines

#5. Healthy and non-shaming mirroring is an important part of the process. We can gain this from a highly emotionally intelligent and effective peer group that has our best interests at heart.

Christopher Dines

#6. Hello, I'm Stan and I'm a textaholic I am powerless over my thumbs

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#7. If we are continuing to attract partners that are emotionally unavailable, then it's essential that we observe our own addictive patterns rather than focusing on theirs.

Christopher Dines

#8. If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Robert Kiyosaki

#9. Body scan meditation is mentally scanning through each part of the body with presence. It helps us be one with the body. Thus, we can feel if we are holding on to any tension or heaviness or any static emotions. And by doing so, we can find relief and internal freedom.

Christopher Dines

#10. I really didn't know there was two sides to the abortion issue.

Norma McCorvey

#11. Note: addiction diverts attention

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#12. On the other hand, I must mention that, by a diligent search in lunatic asylums, I have found individual cases of patients who where unquestionably endowed with great talents, and whose genius distinctly appeared through their madness, which, however, had completely gained the upper hand.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#13. I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.

Epictetus

#14. In my view, compassion takes empathy to another level. With compassion, there is an internal calling to move empathy into action. Compassion is love in action.

Christopher Dines

#15. Nature is in the process of shutting down corrupt corporations and their government minions.

Steven Magee

#16. You are the son other mothers may only wish for."
"How can that possibly be true," he said softly.
"How can it not."

-Rehv's mother and Rehv

J.R. Ward

#17. No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.

John Dryden

#18. When we observe the flow of our breathing, we transcend our thoughts and are able to bring mind and body into harmony with each other. Thus, we create calm.

Christopher Dines

#19. Arguments that explain everything ... explain nothing

Christopher Hitchens

#20. Faster!" Shane yelled. Eve hit the gas hard, and whipped around a slower-moving van. The firing ceased, at least for now. "You see why I didn't want you to stop?"
"Okay, your father is officially off my Christmas list!" Eve yelled. "Oh my God, look at my car!

Rachel Caine

#21. It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your gamekeeper.

E. M. Forster

#22. To stay true to ourselves and remain kind to others is an art. It does require daily vigilance and, at the same time, it's important to remember that art can often get messy.

Christopher Dines

#23. I was treating the past as if it could be mined for clues, for reasons.
But the past resists that.
It holds too much evidence of too many things.

David Levithan

#24. When we seek to escape from inner conflict and pain, we are running away from unresolved childhood trauma or original pain. Most people with serious addictive natures who are in the process of recovery have found that trauma played a huge role in escalating their addictions. It certainly did for me.

Christopher Dines

#25. Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.

Chester Bennington