31 quotes found
“Many partners of addicts have told me they feel bad about themselves for staying in the relationship because of the betrayal theyve experienced. They imagine that the people who know their past jud...”
“May you begin living beyond.”
“Habits are good if you have the habit of the best.”
“You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going...”
“See, I am very dependent... on beauty and peace of the world... on loyalty of friends... on love in families... on happiness and health of children. And I do not want to be free as long as I have i...”
“Changing a Habit is Never Difficult.Difficult is to Address Your Unwillingness to do it”
“The only way to make sure that the Hand didn't get to you would have been to kill your brother. I could've done it, but I didn't. I just gave him some drugs.""You gave an addict in rehab drugs, and...”
“Human beings have a deep need to bond and form connections. If we cant connect with each other, we will connect with whatever we can find It is disconnection that drives addiction.”
“Compassion is the most powerful tool you can have when it comes to healing addictions of any kind. Put simply, what your partner needs most from you is compassion.”
“It is not a coincidence that you and your partner are together. You each have something to learn from one another . The most important thing you can do to support your partner in his [or her] recov...”
“...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.”
“Quinton: I think if every person had a Nova Reed in this world, then life would be a little sunnier.”
“As sinners we are like addicts - addicted to ourselves and our own projects. The theology of glory simply seeks to give those projects eternal legitimacy. The remedy for the theology of glory, ther...”
“I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat.That was until I became one...”
“Black-and-white thinking is the addict's mentality, which can be a bar to recovery when one is still active. But an addict who finds the willingness can then rely on the same trait to stay clean: "...”
“I have never heard of an electromagnetically hypersensitive person recovering from the condition using shielding and Faraday cages, they just seem to become social lepers due to their increasing re...”
“Love is the purest religion and the most destructive addiction!”
“No one wants to be entrapped by his or her addictive habit...”
“The lack of culpability of the perpetrator and his or her transference of blame onto alcohol or other substances only perpetuates the violent behaviors.”
“Some, they didn't make it.The temptation just too strong.How can darkness cloud the mindTo what I know as wrong?”
