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“Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.”
“To have the beginning of a truly great story, you need to have a character you're completely and utterly obsessed with. Without obsession, to the point of a maddening addiction,there's no point to ...”
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”
“An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.”
“Powerlessness implies inactivity, like an appliance that is not plugged into its electrical current. Empowerment is about plugging into responsible choices and then acting upon them to your fullest...”
“He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike purity. If love is nevertheless excluded from his work, it's because he never quite felt that he des...”
“Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.”
“Be an informed advocate and support.”
“There are few things ever dreamed of, smoked or injected that have as addictive an effect on our brains as technology. This is how our devices keep us captive and always coming back for more. The d...”
“Narrow behaviourist thinkingpermeates political and social policy and medical practice, thechildrearing advice dispensed by parenting experts and academicdiscourse. We keep trying to change peoples...”
“While we are curling down in our comfort zone, the perverted talents of connectivity-designers drive us surreptitiously into a blind alley of addiction. If, however, we succeed in impeding mobiles'...”
“Is that the ultimate need? To secure some agent to act as a salve, a bandage, a cover-up, concealer over the black eye, as opposed to facing the issue head on. Nobody wants to address the fist. Wed...”
“There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.”
“Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking about who we don't ever want to be again. Everything we do is part of who we are. ...”
“Poor women suffer terrible sexual violence that goes unreported. Because of their social class, these women do not have access to therapy or other methods of healing. Their repeated abuse ultimatel...”
“Change must start from the individual. And the individual must want and feel ready to make such change.”
“Your identity is not in who you can be. It is in who you always have been”
“Addiction is the primary way people escape the modern world. Unfortunately, it is destroying the modern world.”
“The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.”
“Take a few minutes now and see your current circumstances- your physical condition, your emotional condition, your possessions, your financial condition, where and how you live, your relationships,...”
