#addict

First Embody the Emptiness of Silence Next Embody the Fullness of Honesty & Love Thus Be Heaven Sage Hope (Omid Mankoo) SH... ↗

— Omid Mankoo

#pornography-addiction #recovery #sex-addiction-solution-manual #sexual-addiction #spiritual

Looking For Love and Looking In All The Wrong Places ↗

— Gordon Rouston

#love

It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will lie to you and steal from you and forgive them and offer them help. Can there be any other disease that renders its victims so unappealing? Would Great Ormond Street be so attractive a cause if its beds were riddled with obnoxious little criminals that had “brought it on themselves? ↗

— Russell Brand

#drug-addiction #family #sympathy #family

I'm addicted. I'm addicted to golf. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#golf #i

People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#attention-seekers #drugs #fame #money #money

I'm addicted to cosmetic surgery! ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#cosmetic #i #surgery

...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#fragility #internet-addiction #modern-values #modernity #modernity-is-a-sickness

How could I have never told anyone what He had done for me? Nothing else had worked. Nothing had been able to break the chains that kept me living on the edge. Nothing....except the gentleness of His touch. ↗

— Nikki Rosen

#darkness #deception #faith #hope #life

As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#alcohol #barriers #celebrate #congress #down

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. ↗

— George A. Sheehan

#am #change #due #i #i am