Browsing Topic Best Addiction Quotes

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

One day I realized that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can’t even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life. That’s when you can begin really looking for a relationship. When you can appreciate the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then… find the way.

No matter how far you drive, you are always the same distance from the ditch.

Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

Cocaine is God’s way of telling you you are making too much money.

The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.

Sobriety itself is today’s high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!

The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.

Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.

Complications take many forms, including an imbalanced lifestyle, toxic relationships, hidden emotional debts, resistance, indecision, addictions, and negative conditioned beliefs. When our life is overly complicated, we’re weighed down by superfluous things at every level.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber’s craving for position and social distinction.

Drugs don’t really fix anything, except for everything.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you’re responsible for your own actions.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better

A hurt is at the center of all addictive behaviors. . . . The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as excruciating, and it may even be entirely hidden—but it’s there. As we’ll see, the effects of early stress or adverse experiences directly shape both the psychology and the neurobiology of addiction in the brain