It seems to me like Mother Nature’s mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order for us to continue our addiction to using fossil fuels. I’ve gotta say, I don’t blame her. Not one bit.
Learning about all those different things psychologically – about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.
I quit drinking because I thought somewhere I had fallen in that trap of addiction, and the only way to get out of it was to acknowledge it to myself.
Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat.
Cigars, cigarettes, and hookah tobacco are all smoked tobacco – addictive and deadly. We need effective action to protect our kids from struggling with a lifelong addiction to nicotine.
My addiction has always been beautiful women, being surrounded by them.
We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future.
After writing about addiction in a pair of books, I frequently hear from addicts and their family members about serial relapses followed by treatments followed by more relapses. It’s not uncommon for addicts to go through a dozen treatment programs.
Though addiction is a disease – a brain disease that’s often progressive – addicts who relapse are often blamed.
Addiction isn’t about substance – you aren’t addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.
Aleta St. James is an internationally renowned energy healer, life coach, best selling author, and more. Aleta does private sessions to release old resistance and shift out of anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, trauma, addictions, infertility, and insecurity at a cellular level.
If you don’t have God in your life, you have to fill up on something. And you usually reach for the four great substitutes, the classical addictions: wealth, pleasure, power, and honor. So you try to fill yourself up.
I understand the world of addiction. I get it. I know how fleeting recovery can be.
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
I learned how to play guitar by playing along to Jane’s Addiction records and Smashing Pumpkins records, things you can totally hear if you listen to my guitar.
We will not solve the addiction problem in America if we don’t address social connection.
Even if I look at other people’s social media I feel addiction creeping up on me.
Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature.
For far too many people, the stigma around addiction prevents them from stepping forward for help.
I have to be careful with surfing. It’s still an addiction to me. It’s all I want to do, and that’s the big dilemma I have with it.
Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.
Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it’s about work.
Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.
The antidote to addiction is connection and love.
Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.
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.
I’m a former bulimic myself and it’s a horrible, horrible addiction.
I would say I work very emotionally: I have a very compulsive way of working, where I love something to the moment I am sick of it. I have no addiction outside of work, so my addiction is that process.
Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that’s why it’s come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.
There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.
I was in band that played mostly covers for a while, and the bands that we would cover were, like, the alternative rock bands of that day: we did a Jane’s Addiction song and a Faith No More song. All the kind of alternative radio of that time, the late ’80s, basically.
Everybody has some kind of addiction. It’s about how you get around that addiction. First, you have to break the habit like anything. You have to define the hurdle or the objective.
Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.
I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.
Treatment of alcohol addiction can take many forms.
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
Anyone who’s ever had a loved one go through addiction will know just how devastating it can be and how tough it is for those around them, as much as it is for the addict.
I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There’s a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
Advocating for quality addiction treatment has become a passion, and it’s the most rewarding thing that someone like me can do. People were there to help me when I needed it, so I’ve made it my goal to pay it forward.
My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you’re an immigrant, you know you’ll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way – being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension.
In the midst of all our emotional upheaval caused by ambition, aggression, rejection, transition, addiction, limitation and competition, the one thing that remains constant within us is our deep desire to be happy.
From the beginning of my career, I’ve used makeup as a vehicle to express my vision, my obsessions, inspirations, and addictions. There’s nothing more rewarding than seeing young people recreate some of my iconic looks.
I just hope by how I live my life every day that people can see there is another side to addiction. You can live with it and have a successful life.
The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.
Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.
Everybody knows that L.A. is known for its addiction to the single-passenger automobile, the gridlock, the congestion on the freeways.
Habits can be good or bad, whereas addictions are always bad.
America’s addiction to violence is partly evident in the heroes it chooses to glorify.
For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.
Everyone is connected to somebody with some type of addiction. It’s so ramped now. Everyone has an uncle, a cousin, somebody who has addiction. We all have addiction.
This dark diction has become America’s addiction.
Childhood trauma is really what puts the rocket fuel behind addiction.
I’m always very stressed about making a new proposition every season. But in a way, it’s a kind of addiction.
Well, addiction does start with a choice.
I do a lot of book signings and conventions every year, and I meet a great many readers who are struggling… they’re working through illness, injury, addiction, depression, grief, or some other trauma. It seems to me that there’s a lot of heroism in fighting those things as well, as best you can.
The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.
I always think I am one of the millions and millions of people that struggles with an addiction to food. I don’t know how to relax, that’s my problem.
Being a manager is the closest buzz I’ll ever get to playing. For every low, you get a high, and that becomes an addiction and a feeling you are always chasing.
I’m calling for a cultural change in how we think about addiction. For far too long people have thought about addiction as a character flaw or a moral failing.
Addiction is not a curable condition.
Working and being involved in multiple businesses and fixing things has almost turned into an addiction, but I can’t seem to want to change it.
