Addiction Quotes

It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.

Exercise is like an addiction. Once you're in it, you feel like your body needs it.

In her glamorous quest for the darkest light and the lowest high, she now found herself wallowing on the bottom of a filthy garbage bin.

Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.

I was what they call a 'highly functional addict.' ... sometimes people who need help look nothing like people who need help.

I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay

If you are aware of your weaknesses and are constantly learning, your potential is virtually limitless.

We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future.

Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope.

I smoke weed.It's not an addiction. It's something I wanna do. It's not smart though. It's not good for my body but I'm doing it. I'm not telling people to do it.

Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.

faith without doubt is addiction

I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs... my addiction is wrestling - my obsession is competition.

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

Anybody can do anything that he imagines.

Addiction is not just for bad people or scumbags - it's a universal disease.

My biggest addictions have been chocolate cake, mashed potatoes, and butter sandwiches.

I can't go long without you either, Eva. You're an addiction...my obsession.

This dark diction has become America's addiction.

Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not.

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.

The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

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

I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.

Take a chance! All life is a chance

Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.

It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and I like the taste of metal

Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow.

Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.

My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.

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.

I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

All I've ever done is work in bars and be a wrestler; I often wonder if I'd have pumped gas, would I have been a womanizer and had addiction problems?

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.

It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food.

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.

Everyone has an addiction, mine happens to be you.

Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized.

Those of you who have fallen prey to any kind of addiction, there is hope because God loves all of His children

Master books, but do not let them master you.

Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.