“Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contract. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.”— Robin Williams, telegraph.co.uk
“The thing about addiction is it never ends well, because eventually, whatever it is that was getting us high stops feeling good and starts to hurt. Still, they say you don't kick the habit until you hit rock bottom, but how do you know when you're there? Because no matter how badly a thing is hurtin…”— Debora Cahn, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com
“You think you have hit the bottom many times then always find something else to lose, till after a while what once seemed like the bottom is an altitude that you are trying to scrabble back to.”— Anthony Loyd, amazon.com
“To clean up you have to weigh up what you want, and the best you can hope for at first is a fraction of a percentage in the difference between the desire to stop and the desire to plough on downwards.”— Anthony Loyd, amazon.com
“Always there every time you need me It ain’t love but just like nicotine You’re addicted to a feeling you can only get From me and your cigarettes”— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com
“I like to O.D. I like to almost O.D. on drugs. Yeah. I like to go to the highest. Man, I loved it. I loved it. Wow. And I kept smoking, kept smoking. But I never got to get back to that high, that first high. That first high, yeah. I never got it.”— Anonymous, amazon.com
“In the words of a Persian sage: Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Scientists recently experimented with a worm that they were able to shrink by withholding food. By periodically shrinking the worm so that it was in continual growth, the worm's life was prolonged indefinitely. Perhaps if a junkie could keep himself in a constant state of kicking, he would live to a…”— William Burroughs, amazon.com
“Something else is hurting you - that’s why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can’t think.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“You don’t wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict. It takes at least three months’ shooting twice a day to get any habit at all. And you don’t really know what junk sickness is until you have had several habits. It took me almost six months to get my first habit, and then the withdrawal s…”— William S. Burroughs, amazon.com
“You don’t wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict. It takes at least three months’ shooting twice a day to get any habit at all. And you don’t really know what junk sickness is until you have had several habits. It took me almost six months to get my first habit, and then the withdrawal s…”— William S. Burroughs, amazon.com
“You don’t wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict. It takes at least three months’ shooting twice a day to get any habit at all. And you don’t really know what junk sickness is until you have had several habits. It took me almost six months to get my first habit, and then the withdrawal s…”— William S. Burroughs, amazon.com
“You don’t wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict. It takes at least three months’ shooting twice a day to get any habit at all. And you don’t really know what junk sickness is until you have had several habits. It took me almost six months to get my first habit, and then the withdrawal s…”— William S. Burroughs, amazon.com
“Love is like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day, you want more. You’re not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can still control things. You think about the person you love for two minutes, and forget them for three hours. But then…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“And yet to wine, to opium even, I prefer the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself; and in the wasteland of desire your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst.”— Charles Baudelaire, amazon.com