“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”— Santosh Kalwar, amazon.com
“To him, I was just a five minute smoke break. To me, he was an addiction.”— Ashleigh Catibog-Abraham, ashleighcatibogabraham.tumblr.com
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”— C. G. Jung, goodreads.com
“You have much more power if you're a praying woman than you could believe. I prayed continually and I lifted up all my problems to God. If you have a person who is a chemically dependent person in your family...if you pray hard believin' that God can help you and you just lift that up, I am living p…”— June Carter Cash, npr.org
“It’s not cool to be an alcoholic, meaning it’s not cool to go drink and be a dumbass. It’s cool to be a part of recovery.”— Chester Bennington, noisecreep.com
“I learned that social media gives rise to fake relationships. I felt that I shed a lot of superficial relationships when I quit.”— Justin Deol, youtube.com
“Social media was designed to be addictive. The creators of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter want you to stay on their apps as long as possible. They pour millions of dollars into researching what humans find addictive and how they can better craft their apps to get you to stay on them and use them as…”— Justin Deol, youtube.com
“Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. They are addicts, and they are guilty and they do lie and cheat and steal — like all junkies. And when they get in a frenzy, they will sacrifice anything and anybody to feed their cruel and stupid habit, and t…”— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.com
“Yeah and the sun it tries to warn me Boy those wings are made of wax While the things I do to kill me They just tell me to relax”— Ryan Adams, open.spotify.com
“But those are the things that God made us with so we could find other people and procreate and be healthy and bear children with our healthy bodies and love each other. They’re the most important things about being a human. And prescription drugs will take them away from you, like, ‘Oh, that’s nothi…”— Cat Marnell, washingtonpost.com
“It is easier to watch a woman, especially one that’s beautiful, smudgy and in trouble, than to listen to her.”— Eva Wiseman, theguardian.com
“No medicine can be considered truly healing if its effects do not automatically render it obsolete in a reasonable amount of time.”— Tommy Rosen, amazon.com
“Nine years later, when I got to rehab, all drugs and alcohol were removed from my life. Guess what was waiting for me: my core issues, my condition, my dis-ease. Nine years of self-medication had not, in fact, cured me. Masked by my 'medicine' my issues had been patiently biding their time until the…”— Tommy Rosen, amazon.com
“It is not fully accurate to say that my problem was with drugs. Yes, I took a lot of drugs and hurt myself quite badly doing so. Yet for a long time at the beginning of my using, drugs (marijuana in particular) were a solution to a problem that had been there for some time.”— Tommy Rosen, amazon.com
“People speak about drug addiction and alcoholism as the specific problem a person has. 'He's an alcoholic. He cannot control his drinking.' 'She is a heroin addict. She's dependent on drugs.' Yet the underlying condition of dis-ease is there first and then the behavior begins in order to address it.”— Tommy Rosen, amazon.com
“Here's the self-defeating reasoning behind procrastination: 'I'm not going to do what I need to do. Instead I am going to try to distract myself from dreadful feelings, which are now growing inside me because I'm not doing what I need to do.' When you stop and put procrastination into words, you rea…”— Tommy Rosen, amazon.com
“Driving while purposely taking your eyes off the road is absolutely insane. You are moving at a high speed in a metal contraption filled with combustible liquid, and you deliberately avert your eyes from the road in order to respond to a text message? Wow! That text message must hold a lot of promis…”— Tommy Rosen, amazon.com
“Many people cannot remember the last time they went to the bathroom without bringing their cell phones with them. It seems like they are going to be missing something if they just sit on the toilet without a cell phone.”— Tommy Rosen, amazon.com