124 Addiction Quotes for You to Enjoy

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism. bell hooks

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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. W. H. Auden

Addiction Addictive Tend Point Terminal Sins

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for. Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Addiction is a tough illness, and recovery from it is a hard but noble path. Men and women who walk that path deserve our support, encouragement, and admiration. Sheldon Whitehouse

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Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. A willingness to forgo sleep. A penchant for sadomasochism. Ability to weather crises of faith and self-confidence. Accept exhaustion as fact of life. Addiction to caffeine a definite plus. Unfailing optimism that the end is in sight. Khaled Hosseini

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What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay. Moby

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It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it. Ken Hensley

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Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings. Susan Cheever

You Addicted Addiction Mood About Alteration Substance Brings

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions. Patrick J. Kennedy

People Addiction Immune Classes No-One Afflicts Races Ages Professions

If you've ever had anyone in your life who has been struggling with something, struggling with addiction or struggling with anything, and 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. Sarah Gadon

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These diseases, both alcoholism and addiction, much like bipolar or depression and different illnesses, are still not seen as real diseases. People shy away from seeking help because it's viewed as being somewhat morally off the path, that they've lost their way. Jim Irsay

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Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work. Theresa May

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Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today. Os Guinness

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

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Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take toward your goal, whatever it is, whether it's giving up something, a terrible addiction or trying to work your way through an illness. When you total up those baby steps you'd be amazed over the course of 10 years, the strides you've taken. Hoda Kotb

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Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges. Kate Middleton

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'Higher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It's a very, very tough thing - very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict. Tom Scholz

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Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify. Dale Archer

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Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction. Edward Teller

Addiction Secrecy Once Accepted Becomes

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake. Felix Dennis

Money Addiction Shake Making Making Money Cannot Certainly

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

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We have all learned that addiction and mental illnesses are illnesses, and I think a lot of people overlook that it is a chemical imbalance; it's like cancer, a sickness, and people need to see it as that. Poppy Delevingne

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