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Quotes about Addiction

An uncomfortable feeling is not an enemy. It’s a gift that says, "Get honest; inquire." We reach out for alcohol, or television, or credit cards, so we can focus out there and not have to look at the feeling. And that's as it should be, because in our innocence we haven't known how. So now what we can do is reach out for a paper and a pencil, write thought down, and investigate.

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The average American child sees 20,000 murders in TV before reaching age 18.  This is considered normal.  Every community has video rental stores filled with multimillion-dollar films that depict people doing terrible things to each other.  If you read newspapers, you have every right to believe that Bad Nasty Things compose 90 percent of the human experience.  The authors of thousands of books pu

But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as a gift whose purpose is to enrich the human soul.

Rob Brezsny : Gaia Explorer
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To be, or not. To be! That is the question!

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Borders, governments and the constant need to define ourselves by our differences (human judgement) is the greatest enemy of peace. The awareness that we are all human and the realisation that our greatest similarity is to love and to forgive, is our greatest tool for unity & calm.

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"The greatest challenge we face today is not global warming or wars or the energy crisis, its apathy."

Warren Whitfield
 
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We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial.  And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. : American writer
Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - )
Source: A Man without a Country
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Consumerism turns us all into junk-ies.

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From that point on I visited the bottle every day at dusk. After the morning with Alexis and the afternoon in the sun, this became the third highlight of my day. I never ate more than a milk ball or two and at most half a licorice twist. It was the ritual that counted, the decadent taste of civilization in that strange fruitless Eden where I was allowed to eat practically anything, so long as it wasn’t food.

Sol Luckman
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A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

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If aspects of the person remain undigested--cut off, denied, projected, rejected, indulged, or otherwise unassimilated--they become the points around which the core forces of greed, hatred and delusion attach themselves.

Mark Epstein
Source: Thoughts Without a Thinker
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Here, I'm supposed to tell her the truth. I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.
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.

Chuck Palahniuk
Source: Choke, Page: 185-186
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An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong

Stella Adler (1901 - 1992)
 
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The lyricism of "addiction" may find inspiration in the image of the "outlaw," the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.

Michel Foucault
 
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If we were at a twelve-step meeting together, I would have to stand up and say, "Hi, I'm Nancy P., and I'm a readaholic."

Nancy Pearl
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.

W.H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
 
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I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

Thomas Jefferson : American statesman (3rd US President: 1801-09), wrote Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
 
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Agency, or the power to choose, was ours as spirit children of our Creator before the world was. It is a gift from God, nearly as precious as life itself. Often, however, agency is misunderstood. While we are free to choose, once we have made those choices, we are tied to the consequence of those choices. We are free to take drugs or not. But once we choose to use a habit-forming drug, we are bound to the consequences of that choice. Addiction surrenders later freedom to choose.

Russel M. Nelson (1924 - )
Source: Friend December, 1988, “They Spoke to Us” © by Intellectual Reserve, Inc.Used by permission.
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I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers To exile in the night I guess I'm just addicted To the pain of delight

Melissa Etheridge
 
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I do not know a warning that I judge more necessary to be given to those who are called this day, than to charge them not to trade too much with their natural gifts, and abilities, and learning. These are talents in their kind; but it is the Spirit that must manage all that learning they have, or it will prejudice them, and you also. I have known some good men who have been so addicted to their study, that they have thought the last day of the week sufficient to prepare for their ministry, though they employ all the rest of the week in other studies. But your business is to trade with your spiritual abilities. . . . A man may preach a very good sermon, who is otherwise himself; but he will never make a good minister of Jesus Christ, whose mind and heart [are] not always in the work. Spiritual gifts will require continual ruminating on the things of the Gospel in our minds.

John Owen
Source: An Ordination Sermon
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With his continual doctrine [Bishop Hooper] adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any as to them which for abundance of riches and wealthy state thought they might do what they listed. And doubtless he spared no kind of people, but was indifferent to all men, as well rich as poor, to the great shame of no small number of men nowadays. Whereas many we see so addicted to the pleasing of great and rich men, that in the meantime they have no regard to the meaner sort of poor people, whom Christ hath bought as dearly as the other.

John Foxe (1516 - 1587)
Source: The Book of Martyrs
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That, of course, is the devil's bargain of addiction: a short-term good feeling in exchange for the steady meltdown of one's life.

Daniel Goldman
 
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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Carl Gustav Jung : Swiss psychiatrist, student of Freud & founder analytic psychology
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Source: Memories, Dreams, Reflections, chapter 12 (1963)
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The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Bill Cosby (1937 - )
Source: 1992
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Become addicted to constant and never-ending self improvement.

Anthony D'Angelo
Source: The College Blue Book
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MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce : American satirist
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)
Source: The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
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MENDACIOUS, adj. Addicted to rhetoric.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce : American satirist
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)
Source: The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
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FRIENDLESS, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce : American satirist
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)
Source: The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
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