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«We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.»
Author: Anne Wilson Schaef | Keywords: accurately, addiction, addictions, addictive, focused, isolate, isolated, move in, recognized, recovery, specific, treated, underlie, underlies, underlying
«We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely? change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.»
Author: George Sheehan | Keywords: addiction, addictions, due, due to, involved, old person, preference, The New, wanting, willpower
«In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy»
Author: Ivan Illich | Keywords: addiction, addictions, consumer, Consumer Society, envy, inevitably, kinds, prisoners, slaves, society, The Prisoner of
«For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three -- the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.»
Author: Peter McWilliams | Keywords: addiction, addictions, addictive, big time, disease, emotions, negative, the Big, The Body, The Others, The Wings, wings
«Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.»
Author: Ralph Nader (Activist, Lawyer) | Keywords: addiction, addictions, alcoholics, drug, drug addiction, health problem, jail, jailed, jails, nonviolent, send, treated, users
«I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, 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 death from being a total surprise.»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk (Journalist, Novelist, Satirist) | About: Addiction, Death and dying | Keywords: addict, addiction, addictions, addicts, admire, at random, cause of death, disaster, disease, For some, keep down, likely, random, sudden, sudden death, total
«All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation»
Author: W. H. Auden (Dramatist, Editor, Poet) | Keywords: addiction, addictions, addictive, damnation, Point of, tends, tends to, terminal, terminals, terminal point, The Terminal
«I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. . . . I did absolutely nothing.»
Author: William S. Burroughs | Keywords: addiction, addictions, bath, fibrous, flesh, grey, heroin, heroin addiction, needle, removed, The Bath, wooden
«The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them.»
Author: William S. Burroughs | Keywords: addiction, addictions, available, drug, drug addiction, effect, exposure, illness, intoxicant, intoxicants, psychological, ridiculous, somehow, speaking, totally
«Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung (Founder, Psychologist) | About: Addiction | Keywords: addiction, addictions, alcohol, idealism, morphine, narcotic, narcotics
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