Top 37 Gabor Mate Quotes

#1. Green Gables has been translated into Swedish and Dutch. My copy of the Swedish edition always gives me the inestimable boon of a laugh. The cover design is a full length figure of Anne, wearing a sunbonnet, carrying the famous carpet-bag, and with hair that is literally of an intense scarlet!

L.M. Montgomery

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#2. When I'm reasonably balanced in my personal and spiritual life, I don't have difficulty finding compassion for my addicted patients.

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#3. The question is never "Why the addiction?" but "Why the pain?" The research literature is unequivocal: most hard-core substance abusers come from abusive homes.

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#4. Adults envy the open-hearted and open-minded explorations of children; seeing their joy and curiosity, we pine for our own capacity for wide-eyed wonder.

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#5. The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.

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#6. While nervous tension may be a component of stress, one can be stressed without feeling tension.

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#7. In the real world there is no nature vs. nurture argument, only an infinitely complex and moment-by-moment interaction between genetic and environmental effects

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#8. Ignorancy is bliss.

P.J. Kelley

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#9. Addiction is pretty simple. It's what happens when peolme don't get what they need, and end up soothing themselves.

Gabor Mate

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#10. All nationalism or racialism is evil, and Jewish nationalism is no exception.

Karl Popper

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#11. Autonomy is impossible as long as one is driven by anything.

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#12. We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.

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#13. I needed to write, to express myself through written language not only so that others might hear me but so that I could hear myself.

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#14. When I am sharply judgmental of any other person, it's because I sense or see reflected in them some aspect of myself that I don't want to acknowledge.

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#15. Olympics are coming to Vancouver in 2010 and with it the likelihood of gentrification in this neighborhood. The process has already begun. There's a fear that the politicians, eager to impress the world, will try to displace the addict population.

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#16. People jeopardize their lives for the sake of making the moment livable. Nothing sways them from the habit - not illness, not the sacrifice of love and relationship, not the loss of all earthly goods, not the crushing of their dignity, not the fear of dying. The drive is that relentless.

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

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#18. Use thy duties, as Noah's dove did her wings, to carry thee to the ark of the Lord Jesus Christ, where only there is rest.

Isaac Ambrose

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#19. The research literature has identified three factors that universally lead to stress: uncertainty, the lack of information and the loss of control.

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#20. Documentaries make a difference.

Paul Watson

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#21. It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Jean Baudrillard

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#22. The acronym COAL has been proposed for this attitude of compassionate curiosity: curiosity, openness, acceptance, and love:

Gabor Mate

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#23. Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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#24. Not why the addiction but why the pain.

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#25. Strong convictions do not necessarily signal a powerful sense of self: very often quite the opposite. Intensely held beliefs may be no more than a person's unconscious effort to build a sense of self to fill what, underneath, is experienced as a vacuum.

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#26. Passion creates, addiction consumes.

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#27. No society can understand itself without looking at its shadow side.

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#28. The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

John Ruskin

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#29. What we call the personality is often a jumble of genuine traits and adopted coping styles that do not reflect our true self at all but the loss of it.

Gabor Mate

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#30. I write and believe so
those who read will share my vision.

S. Raven Storm

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#31. It's incredibly flattering to be a U.S. senator, which I want to stay at for a long time.

Cory Booker

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#32. Addictions always originate in pain, whether felt openly or hidden in the unconscious. They are emotional anesthetics. Heroin and cocaine, both powerful physical painkillers, also ease psychological discomfort.

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#33. The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates.

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#34. Thou I cannot so freely say, My heart is with thee, my soul longeth after thee ; yet can I say, I long for such a longing heart (648).

Richard Baxter

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#35. This is God's victory: not mine.

Philippa Gregory

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#36. The United States contains less than 5 percent of the world's population but houses nearly a quarter of the world's prisoners.

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#37. We may not be responsible for another's addiction or the life history that preceded it, but many painful situations could be avoided if we recognized that we are responsible for the way we ourselves enter into the interaction. And that, to put it most simply, means dealing with our own stuff.

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