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Just because something is addictive doesn't mean that you will get addicted to it. But . . . if your stomach ties up in knots while you count the seconds waiting for a phone call from that special someone . . . if you hear a loud buzzing in your ears when you see a certain person's car (or one just like it) . . . if your eyes burn when you hear a random love song or see a couple holding hands . . . if you suffer the twin agonies of craving for and withdrawing from a series of unrequited crushes or toxic relationships . . . if you always feel like you're clutching at someone's ankle and dragged across the floor as they try to leave the room . . . welcome to the club.


Ethlie Ann Vare


#ethlie-ann-vare #love-addiction #self-help #sex #sex-addiction

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.


C.G. Jung


#psyche #psychology #bad

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.


Craig Ferguson


#control #writing #addiction

Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.


Stephen King


#family

Who shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans!


Terry Pratchett


#coffee #humor #humor

A frequent exchange of text messages is not a relationship. It's not even a pen-pal.


Ethlie Ann Vare


#love-addiction #self-help #sex #sex-addiction #love

In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on the road to self-destruction. It does not affirm but places upon us greater and greater demands. It destroys the outside world until it is hard to live outside war's grip. It takes a higher and higher dose to achieve any thrill. Finally, one ingests war only to remain numb.


Chris Hedges


#narcotic #war #love

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

...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

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.


River Phoenix


#climbing #consume #corporate #hands #just