Best Addiction Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

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

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

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

The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.

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

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!

I have a writing addiction.

Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.

And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choirs singing the hymns of time, intoning the praises of the firmament, revealing the secrets of the invisible.

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

Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.

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

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

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

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

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it’s often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.

How important is it really that you feel satisfied right now for 2 minutes, compared to getting yourself free from addiction forever?

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.

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

I never watch TV. I’m a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.

When you can stop you don’t want to, and when you want to stop, you can’t.

It turns out that dopamine is a chemical on double duty in the brain. Along with its role in motor commands, it also serves as the main messenger in the reward systems, guiding a person toward food, drink, mates, and all things useful for survival. Because of its role in the reward system, imbalances in dopamine can trigger gambling, overeating, and drug addiction – behaviors that result from a reward system gone awry.