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Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them
All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.
Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which... obsession replaces people.
I spent years searching for effective programs that would lower drug use and prevent addiction.
Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.
Addiction is a disease like anything else. It's like cancer, like heart disease, like diabetes.
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all.
No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.
Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.
Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind?
The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.
No behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love.
For far too many people, the stigma around addiction prevents them from stepping forward for help.
Once you get that addiction of realizing what you can do, you want to take that to the next level.
Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He's such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane's Addiction.
I just think the whole disease model of addiction is crap. It's rooted in fiction and junk science.
Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.
In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted.
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.
No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.
Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.
An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.
Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.
Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.
It's a good addition. There are so many bad addictions. Better be addicted to shoes than something else
Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.
If you are aware of your weaknesses and are constantly learning, your potential is virtually limitless.
To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master.
Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.
The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.
If you try to shut down your angel guidance, that's the path to feeling unhappy and results in addiction.
I'm fascinated by the whole issue of arousal addiction, which seems to be mostly a problem for young men.
I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs... my addiction is wrestling - my obsession is competition.
Just like everybody else, celebrities have brains and those brains get conditions - addiction, depression.
Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.
End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.
Addiction is a brain disease - this isn't a moral failing - and we have got to stop looking at it that way.
We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.
If your addiction lingers, ask yourself if you really want to release it, because in your heart you do not.
All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
Talking about my addiction to alcohol is therapeutic. Most definitely telling everyone about it is as well.
I think stress is an addiction. It can be tied to work addiction or busyness addiction or success addiction.
I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.
Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.
Were Moses to go up Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd bring down with him would be aspirin and Prozac.