Addiction Quotes - Page 21

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

  Glennon Melton

  People, Needs, Looks

  Glennon Doyle Melton (2014). “Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• During my drinking decades, I lived like a pig. My room was a hazardous pile of stilettos, tube tops, wine bottles, ashtrays, and old magazines. I valued nothing. Everything that came into my life was disposable: clothes, opportunities, people. My bedroom looked as if my insides had spilled out onto the floor.

  Glennon Melton

  Drinking, Wine, Opportunity

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• Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill.

  Jacob Braude

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Thinking

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• Addiction might be redefined not as a character flaw but as a "biochemical deficit management." Our emotional habits will become an accepted factor of good health, along with slogans like "Heartache can be harmful to your unborn children."

  Marni Jackson

  Children, Pain, Character

  Marni Jackson (2012). “Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign”, p.348, A&C Black

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• If you're losing the battle against a persistent bad habit, an addiction, or a temptation, and you're stuck in a repeating cycle of good intention-failure-guilt, you will not get better on your own. You need the help of other people. Some temptations are only overcome with the help of a partner who prays for you, encourages you, and holds you accountable.

  Rick Warren

  People, Temptation, Get Better

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• Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with my best women friends; the loss of people without whom I could not live, the loss of pets that left me reeling, dizzying betrayals but much greater loyalty, and overall, choosing as my motto William Blake's line that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love.

  Anne Lamott

  Loyalty, Disappointment, Betrayal

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• There is no error, no addiction with more power than the Cross of Christ.

  Matt Chandler

  Errors, Christ, Crosses

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• Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people get hooked on drugs and when they get over that addiction they go out and they try to talk to kids and they try to work in rehab centers.

  Ice T

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you're not filled back up quickly, you might collapse like a birthday balloon". I guess that's why acting is so addictive. For the director, that addiction will come from the love and trust he gets from the "orchestra", him being the conductor. That's why many directors fall in love with their leading lady/man: having someone say "how do you want me to be" is incredible.

  Matthew Jacobs

  Falling In Love, Men, Acting

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• One of the reasons I sing so much about smoking or drinking isn't about the addiction, but more so that I'm trying to let people have a good time at my shows and forget their problems. Relax and enjoy. There's not certain religions or politics sold on them. Just come out, have a beer, have a laugh, good energy from stage and have a good time.

  Hank Williams III

  Drinking, Beer, People

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• Marijuana is not addictive. People are the addicts and they will find a substance or a belief that will feed the addiction they need to make their day go away. Meaning one looks for a substance that allows them not to live with who and what they really are. To stop addiction we must treat the patient and stop blaming everyone and everything else but the abuser.

  Steven Machat

  Marijuana, People, Going Away

  "A Cannabis Crusader Brings The Fight For Legal Weed To America’s Heartland". Interview with Stacey Chillemi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2016.

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• You really can't just take someone who's got a drug addiction and just put 'em in rehab. It doesn't work that way. You can't choose it for them. They have to choose it for themselves - because that's scary. It's really hard.

  Rosario Dawson

  Scary, Drug, Ems

  "In her own words: Rosario Dawson talks about playing Vanessa Hudgens' drug-addled mother in "Gimme Shelter". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. January, 2014.

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• It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.

  David Bowie

  Long, Alcohol, Drug

  "Q&A with David Bowie: The man who fell ... then got up again". Interview with Robert Hilburn, www.latimes.com. April 4, 1993.

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• We cannot drill our way out of our addiction to oil.

  Barack Obama

  Oil, Anwr, Way

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• After a few years of the addiction controlling my online life, and beginning to affect my life offline as well - meeting men and becoming physically involved with them - whether I believed in God or not, to me was moot. Anything that had as much control over my life as this addiction did could not be healthy.

  Anne Marie Miller

  Men, Years, Healthy

  "Secrets, Lies, & Porn in the Church: A Q&A with “Permission to Speak Freely” Author Anne Jackson". Interview with Flunking Sainthood, www.beliefnet.com. September 2010.

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• If you ever had anyone in your life who has been struggling with addiction or struggling with anything, it's about the resilience of love and how much you're willing to struggle with somebody to preserve your relationship and to try to preserve them as a person - and I think that's really important.

  Sarah Gadon

  Struggle, Thinking, Resilience

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Drug addicts, when they are in their addiction, are selfish.

  Liz Brixius

  Selfish, Drug, Drug Addict

  Source: deadline.com

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• Everyone has addictions and my problem is that I have 5,000 of them. If it's not drinking, it's gambling; if it's not gambling, it's eating anything from burgers, doughnuts to M&Ms. The only addiction I don't suffer from is chasing women.

  John Daly

  Drinking, Gambling, Suffering

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• Too much of my family has messed with drugs. Addiction might be in my genes, so I ain't never tryin' it. It's something you can't control, and I don't like things I can't control. I worked too hard to have it taken away for something stupid. I ain't gonna be laughed at the way I used to laugh at those crackheads.

  Edgerrin James

  Stupid, Taken, Laughing

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• In the future, judges will send criminals to holy spots where reverence-provoking beauty will overwhelm their addiction to hatred.

  Rob Brezsny

  Judging, Hatred, Criminals

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.62, Frog Books

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• As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

  Joseph Addison

  Reading

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• I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Boys, Terrible, Horrible

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• I'm much more conscious of historical events since the '60s. In the '60s, I was insulated by my own addictions, my own lifestyle, from what was going on in the world. After I recovered I was amazed at certain people who had died. I hadn't noticed that they had gone. Not friends ... I'm talking about public figures who had passed away.

  Tennessee Williams

  Talking, People, Historical

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I used to find myself goofed out in the street on drugs. And I had such a bad problem with addiction at the time that I didn't mind. I was dealing cocaine and shooting up a lot of cocaine. And that's not a good space to be in.

  Will Self

  Space, Drug, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have family members who literally struggle with crack addiction, and I've seen how destructive that's been, not only for their relationships and their children and their career, but perpetually even until today because that meant that that person was not there all these years to raise their child and just the damage that it inflicts.

  Rosario Dawson

  Children, Struggle, Years

  "Rosario Dawson Talks GIMME SHELTER, Coming Full Circle Since Her Debut in KIDS, Responding to the Screenplay, and Collaborating with Vanessa Hudgens". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 22, 2014.

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