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.

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.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

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

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

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

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Music is an addiction.

When you look in the mirror and hate what you see, you need addictions to survive.

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.

The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.

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

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.