We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
Well done is better than well said.
It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
If a man does his best, what else is there?
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.
All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.
It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.
For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.
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