Professor Of Pain Quotes

#1. But we aren't transparent. If we want someone to know us, we have to tell them stuff.

Ava Dellaira

#2. Robert Pattinson should not take back Kristen Stewart. She cheated on him like a dog and will do it again
just watch. He can do much better!

Donald Trump

#3. Since the discovery of the fermented grape, humans have experienced the pain and the frustration of addiction.

David W. Earle

#4. Oh, because you're an alcoholic." Only when I heard those words did it filter through my own denial. Only then did I gain understanding.

David W. Earle

#5. All my brothers, my brothers-in-law, they're always telling me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you get to be a real professor of pain.

Paddy Chayefsky

#6. You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.

Ernest Borgnine

#7. Addiction is a "shitty" disease

David W. Earle

#8. War on Drugs...will only be won when we point our thumbs at ourselves and ask the hard question: "How am I contributing to this problem?

David W. Earle

#9. Crossing the Ring of Fire is..moving from the emotional shutdown of numbness through the flames of fear and entering into the healing arms of change.

David W. Earle

#10. The more one moves toward change, the more desperate one becomes and despair increases. The natural reaction is to hide as far away from pain as possible and as much as possible, numbing the associated emotions.

David W. Earle

#11. Before the magic of recovery, I thought a perfect weekend involved hiding from myself with all the distractions life provides.

David W. Earle

#12. Real love will take you far beyond yourself; and therefore real love will devastate you.

Ken Wilber

#13. People do not build a defense around a strength but around a weakness. Regardless of the magnitude of this mighty defense, part of the addictive personality desperately wants to escape.

David W. Earle

#14. I looked into the face of addiction and it terrified me!

David W. Earle

#15. When face to face with our demons our destiny is in reach.

David W. Earle

#16. If there were two doors, one labeled, Door to Happiness, and the other labeled, Committee to Study How to be Happy, most of us would attend the committee meeting.

David W. Earle

#17. Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.

Susie Orbach

#18. Half the bands I guarantee wouldn't at this point want Nuno to open for them.

Nuno Bettencourt

#19. embrace the suffering knowing the grieving you experience is about having something you desperately want and lost or having something you never possessed and earnestly desire. That lack you experience is the reality of life.

David W. Earle

#20. Humans can find many ways to hide from themselves in distractions and by being "busy.

David W. Earle

#21. In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

B. Carroll Reece