Top 100 Quotes About Addictions
#1. Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.
Keith Miller
#2. As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.
Joseph Addison
#4. See what it is you would like to attract into your life. See how you would like your business to go, your relationships to go, and even your body to go in terms of overcoming addictions and dealing with weight and health issues.
Wayne Dyer
#5. 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
#6. Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction.
Joyce Meyer
#7. In a society that almost demands life at double time, speed and addictions numb us to our own experience. In such a society, it is almost impossible to settle into our bodies or stay connected with our hearts, let alone connect with one another or the earth where we live.
Jack Kornfield
#8. Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.
Peter Singer
#9. Now smoking really is an expression of the rebel spirit - it's virtually sodding illegal! Yet what are we without our addictions? Insipid. Flavorless. Careerless!
David Mitchell
#10. After a while, we start really believing these things are true. People who have had self-defeating behaviors for a long time, such as people who have been overweight since they were children or people with longtime addictions, actually believe there is no other alternative.
Wayne Dyer
#11. Vassily cleared his throat, probably impatient with Gabriel's bookshelf manners. 'You'll have to excuse me,' Gabriel said, putting back the booklet, 'I have a severe addiction to ink.'
'Don't we all?' Vassily nodded. 'Thank God we have other addictions to assuage it a little.
Jean-Christophe Valtat
#12. Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.
Martin Amis
#13. When it comes to addictions, we tend to divide humanity into two groups: those who are prone toward addictions and those who aren't. The reality, of course, is very different. All human beings have already fallen into sin.
Edward T. Welch
#14. people who love their addictions have an attachment to something with no life force.
Galen Stoller
#15. Start announcing freedom from anything that's holding you back. Freedom from addictions, freedom from loneliness, freedom from lack, freedom from struggle. You are prophesying your future. Your words are setting the direction for your life.
Joel Osteen
#16. One theory is that those who think positively are less affected by stress, but another possibility is that those who think positively tend to live a healthier, longer life in general because they exercise more, follow a better diet, and avoid unhealthy addictions like alcohol and drugs.
Katelyn Williams
#17. People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for a short time. I didn't let go of my negative thoughts; I questioned them, and then they let go of me, and so did my addictions and depression.
Byron Katie
#18. Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.
Richie Sambora
#19. I believe sex is a life force and I try to write about it as straightforwardly as I can. I try to let characters live within their desires and addictions, because most people are works in progress.
Maureen Gibbon
#20. We are all adaptable to changes and self worth is priceless. adapt yourself to be independent (from people, addictions, etc..) and you'll realize how strong you truly are on your own.
Abraham Ruiz
#21. Christ-followers contract malaria, bury children & battle addictions & as a result, face fears. Its not the absence of storms that sets us apart. It's whom we discover in the storm; an unstirred Christ.
Max Lucado
#22. The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's temperature to a level incompatible with the continued existence of civilization.
Richard Heinberg
#23. I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
Chuck Palahniuk
#24. Very softly, he says, "I wouldn't be here without you." It is bigger than an I love you. It is a declaration that solidifies what I've known for so long. We aren't connected by our addictions. But by our childhood. Souls fused together from the very, very start.
Krista Ritchie
#25. There are worse addictions than wanting to be happy.
Joshua McCune
#26. For me, addiction never really included telling myself that everything was okay. By the time I was deep in my addictions, I knew things were pretty bad and I had no control over them.
Rob Roberge
#27. Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.
Martin Amis
#30. Unchain Your Brain: 10 Steps to Breaking the Addictions That Steal Your Life,
Daniel G. Amen
#31. Now you know how I justify my addictions - if I can pay less for it than I would at Wal-Mart, I get to have it.
Karen Marie Moning
#32. When anyone gets devoured by drugs or alcohol, their souls are in hiding on another plane. Addictions are a kind of possession and to recover our true selves, we need help remembering who we really are.
Suzan Saxman
#33. We visual communicators have so much good to share: rather than sharing our chemical and style addictions, we could be using our professional skills to help communicate health information, conflict resolution, democracy, technology.
David Berman
#34. Old habits die hard, and sometimes the toughest addictions to shake are the ones that control our hearts.
Dannika Dark
#35. I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don't mind admitting any of them.
Hunter S. Thompson
#36. There came a time in everyone's life when they realized that in spite of how hard they'd been running from themselves, everywhere they went, there they were: Addictions and compulsions were nothing but marching bands of distraction, masking truths that were unpleasant, but ultimately undeniable.
J.R. Ward
#37. Addictions are strategies we use to keep the truth from ourselves by blinding us from seeing what's true about us.
Michael John Cusick
#38. I am freeing myself from security, sensation and power addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life and thus destroy my serenity and keeps me from loving myself and others.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#39. Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.
Julia Cameron
#40. We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project.
Judith Wright
#41. Most addictions are attempts to find happiness in people's souls. This
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#42. Sports and sex and movies are not inherently bad - But for you they're addictions, not enjoyments. You use them to distract you from what you know you should do. Break free!
Dan Millman
#43. Out of all the addictions in the world, Attention is slowly but surely becoming one of the most dangerous.
Saahil Prem
#44. It is in this space of mastery over paradigms that people throw off addictions, live in constant joy, bring down empires, get locked up or burned at the stake or crucified or shot, and have impacts that last for millennia.
Donella Meadows
#45. He is an addiction, and addictions are never good for you. He's taking me deeper into his world, deeper into his dark desires, but I'm never able to get behind the physical aspect of our relationship. I just lose more of who I am.
Lisa Renee Jones
#46. What is addiction? Only those that have been kept secret; are addictions. Those that are openly visible cannot be called addiction.
Dada Bhagwan
#47. A Rescuer isn't always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholism-all the ways we numb out-can rescue the Victim from feeling his or her own feelings.
David Emerald Womeldorff
#48. Percocet? Seriously?" Brian laughed bitterly. "That's so nineties. He should at least update his addictions.
Rafael Yglesias
#49. I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#50. We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel.
Francis Chan
#51. You can't wear revealing clothes because of the sex addicts. Instead, you wear big bras, big pants and baggy tops. You're taught to respect others' addictions.
Kerry Katona
#52. Addictions are an attempt to preserve control over your feelings and your life and respond assertively to helplessness.
Lance Dodes
#54. Most of our addictions [shopping, food, bad relationships] as women flare up when we feel that we are not loved or sought after.
John Eldredge
#55. It's a good addition. There are so many bad addictions. Better be addicted to shoes than something else
Christian Louboutin
#56. Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?
Froma Harrop
#57. What we moderns call "addictions" God calls "idols," and all of God's good gifts are meant to raise our eyes in thanksgiving to our benevolent heavenly Father, not to fix our eyes on the gifts themselves.
Michael S. Horton
#58. When you look in the mirror and hate what you see, you need addictions to survive.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#59. The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#60. when you only eat natural foods, you are less likely to become addicted to sugar or fat. And because you won't be prone to sugar or fat addictions, it will be very hard to eat extra calories.
Walter James Brown
#61. Chili is not so much food as a state of mind. Addictions to it are formed early in life and the victims never recover. On blue days in October, I get this passionate yearning for a bowl of chili, and I nearly lose my mind.
Margaret Cousins
#62. Addictions and mental disorders are like a disease, and they need treatment.
Syesha Mercado
#63. Maybe if her mother had been put in treatment for her addictions (which were implicit) rather than in the garage in Danbury, Pom-Pom wouldn't be standing in his office today.
Piper Kerman
#64. But I want to motivate. I wanna motivate every person to leave here to be a better father, a better husband, to break addictions to come up higher in their walk with the Lord.
Joel Osteen
#65. We, as a society, have arbitrarily differentiated between acceptable and unacceptable drug addictions.
Steven Kassels
#66. Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature.
Russell Smith
#67. Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.
Caitlin Moran
#68. If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.
Nalini Nadkarni
#69. It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.
Ellen Burstyn
#70. When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.
Pema Chodron
#71. Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to nicotine, alcohol, and other substances, there are psychological addictions, such as the addiction to work, sex, television, melodrama, and perfection.
Deepak Chopra
#72. Why are so many people struggling with depression and discouragement? They've lost heart. Why can't we seem able to break free of our addictions? Because somewhere along the way, in a moment of carelessness or desperation, we gave our heart away, and now we can't get it back.
John Eldredge
#73. Aleta St. James is an internationally renowned energy healer, life coach, best selling author, and more. Aleta does private sessions to release old resistance and shift out of anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, trauma, addictions, infertility, and insecurity at a cellular level.
Jenna Morasca
#74. Yet what are we without our addictions? Insipid. Flavourless.
David Mitchell
#75. When people tell me they will give it a try, I say don't bother, you have already decided to fail. It takes more than a try to quit addictions; it takes a commitment. A commitment is a promise that you stick with, no matter what.
Joel Fuhrman
#77. I was just taking out my trash and I had, like, 300 cans of Diet Coke. It was just like, 'How did that happen?' I don't even remember buying them. I also like Cinnamon Toast Crunch. My addictions are pretty much the only things I consume.
Robert Pattinson
#78. There are chemical and other explanations for addictions, but speaking from my own observations (and I am a shamanic type), there is always some sort of disembodied spirit causing some of the addiction, riding your energy field, trying to impose their needs and addictions onto you.
Robert Moss
#79. I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids, I don't have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch, and I'm kind of target oriented.
Henry Rollins
#80. Compassion is the most powerful tool you can have when it comes to healing addictions of any kind. Put simply, what your partner needs most from you is compassion.
Christopher Kennedy Lawford
#81. (P.S. If you have addictions, not only do they ruin your sixth sense, they ruin everything else as well. Keep in mind that as you reach for higher ground, it's necessary to leave the swamp. Before you can go one step further, you must be honest and admit you need help. Then get it. It's time.)
Sonia Choquette
#82. Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.
Robert Breault
#83. I am discovering how my consciousness dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#84. Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference:
Ken Keyes Jr.
#85. All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.
Barbara De Angelis
#86. There are worse addictions than reality TV, chocolate and coffee.
Sarah Dessen
#87. Nowadays not even the villains smoke. Now smoking really is an expression of the rebel spirit - it's virtually sodding illegal! Yet what are we without our addictions? Insipid. Flavorless.
David Mitchell
#88. Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.
Keith Miller
#89. [Fasting is] a way of making sure we haven't let the rhythms of the everyday put us to sleep, a way to make sure that our habits have not become addictions ...
Brian D. McLaren
#90. This sense of entitlement contributes mightily to sloppiness, to low incentive, to boredom, to bad choices, to instant gratification, to constant demands for more, and to all kinds of addictions (including the addiction to technology).
Richard Eyre
#91. Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.
Judith Wright
#92. We don't tell anyone the darker side of things. We've been through all the breakups and addictions and all that. But we have a chemistry that no one else in the world has. So we don't mess with it." - Chris Martin
Chris Martin
#93. 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
#94. addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can't stand it.
Pema Chodron
#95. 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.
Gabor Mate
#96. One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.
Lorna Luft
#97. I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.
Nolan Bushnell
#98. Everyone has addictions and my problem is that I have 5,000 of them. If it's not drinking, it's gambling; if it's not gambling, it's eating anything from burgers, doughnuts to M&Ms. The only addiction I don't suffer from is chasing women.
John Daly
#99. We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified, drug addictions, personalities, it just became too much.
Izzy Stradlin
#100. Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.
Margaret Atwood
