1,286 Quotes About Addiction

Getting in touch with our frozen grief can be a sacred act. Grief work is healing. Grieving allows us to make peace with the past and the present. Grieving helps us to come out of hiding and unravels our masks and false self. We grow stronger and wiser when we get in touch with our original pain. We are no longer chained to our traumatic buried feelings and memories—we are liberated.

I am a work in progress.

We should be open to change to ensure that our addiction to life always remains under check.

What some people regard as an expression of freedom is actually that of slavery.

Addiction wants to make a coward out of Addicts are afraid of change because it takes absolutely no courage to stay with what you know.

The weaker the desire to change, the further away from now is the moment from which we plan on changing.

The distressing internal state is not examined: thefocus is entirely on the outside: What can Ireceive from the world thatwill make me feel okay, if only for a moment? Bare attention can showher that these moods and feelings have only the meaning and powerthat she gives them. Eventually she will realize that there is nothing torun away from. Situations might need to be changed, but there is nointernal hell that one must escape by dulling or stimulating the mind.

In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense

Every morning he would go to sleep telling himself that he had had enough, that there would be no more of it, and every afternoon he would wake up with the same desire, the same irresistible urge to crawl back into the car. He wanted that solitude again, that nightlong rush through the emptiness, that rumbling of the road along his skin.