Addiction Quotes

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An alcoholic is someone who can violate his standards faster than he can lower them.

You can't defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you.

In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time.

Among young people . . . drinking is for getting drunk. And many go on to become alcoholics.

Drunkenness is not a new vice. Its ravages have always been a scourge on the human race . . .Alcohol is a killer, a murderer.

Do not seek solace in alcohol. Alcohol obscures good judgment and leaves you unable to think clearly or understand what God is trying to say to you.

What began as an apparently harmless pastime has ended up as a frightening, overpowering addiction or obsession.

Some [young people] are taking pills called “heaven or hell” drugs, because you’re liable to experience either one.

There is hope for the alcoholic: God is able to deliver from this as well as any other addiction.

One of the characteristics of some drugs (such as cocaine) is that they make a person feel strong and alert—when in fact the opposite is the case. Don’t allow yourself to be deceived.

Willpower, though important in its own way, is never enough. In order for you to be truly powerful, you must open up and trust in something beyond yourself—something you cannot prove for certain.

Many people are trying to steady themselves by taking tranquilizers. Jesus is the greatest tranquilizer of all. He can straighten out your life and put you back on center.

Each generation becomes more addicted to the sedatives of life, to dull the pain of living.

The Bible condemns the use of any substance which alters or distorts our thinking (including alcohol, which was the most common drug in ancient times).

Some of the most heart-breaking letters I receive are from people who tell how alcohol or drugs have ravaged their lives and destroyed their families.

When the headlines get black and foreboding, the sale of alcohol and barbiturates rises in the country, as millions try to escape from the grim realities of [such] dangers.

One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.

Escapism seems to be the order of the day . . .Escape with drugs or alcohol, and the bitterness of living will be blurred . . .We can’t escape from God.

Liquor is not necessary either for health or for so-called gracious living . . .It is the cause of untold sorrow, suffering, and material loss, not to mention the spiritual implications of drinking.

In Houston, Texas, a man was born again in one of our meetings. He owned a liquor store. The next morning he had a sign on the front of his door saying, “Out of business.

Drinking has become one of the most serious social problems. It is basically the result of an attempt to escape from the responsibilities and realities of life.

Memories consumeLike opening the woundI'm picking me apart againYou all assumeI'm safe here in my roomUnless I try to start again.

Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.

If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.

If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.

Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.

Tweet others the way you want to be tweeted.

How could we love books more than money? This is the state of book lovers.

A lot of people here some South in your mouth, and they automatically think you're dumb. They think if you talk funny, you are funny. – Lloyd Hand

This could be addictive.

Changing a Habit is Never Difficult.Difficult is to Address Your Unwillingness to do it

she said, “I swear, I put something in my mouth one time, and I’m addicted. I think I have oral fixation issues.

The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.

When we observe the flow of our breathing, we transcend our thoughts and are able to bring mind and body into harmony with each other. Thus, we create calm.

Under the influence, I am easily influenced. I try to keep my pants on, but some things are easier said than done.

There is no cell culture for depression. You can't see it on a bone scan or an x-ray. Not everyone with depression will show the same behavioral symptoms.

Domestic violence rarely affects only those directly involved in the abusive relationship.

In the soft light of morning, the sky outside turning light blue, my answer is always and still: “I’m fine.

I wanted to break you. I never expected you to like it.

My slurred speech isn’t from one or nine drinks too many, it’s from my father.

Jealousy in any form will cloud thinking and form bad habits. Jealousy is an addiction.

Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you.

Tweet others the way you want to want to be tweeted.

We all have a responsibility with the words we post on the internet. If you wouldn't want your mother, daughter, sister or friend to read it, don't post it.

Too much of a good thing is toxic

Instead of a criminal or a drug addict, I was looking at a boy—just a boy.

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

My blood makes noise. And I’m saying this now, because I have a strange gut feeling that it will be silenced someday soon.