Addiction

(138 votes)   If I can't see you, feel you or touch you. Do you really exist outside my mind?

Carl Stoynoff
poet/philosopher

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(138 votes)   Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

Tryon Edwards

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(129 votes)   Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Jacob M. Braude

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(119 votes)   Have you heard about the latest 12 step group for compulsive talkers? It's called ... On and On Anonymous.

Anonymous

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(117 votes)   Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

John Dryden
English poet, dramatist and critic. (1631-1700)

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(111 votes)   The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.

Somerset Maugham

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(110 votes)   Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

Michel de Montaigne

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(105 votes)   Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.

John Hardwick

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(105 votes)   Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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(103 votes)   We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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(97 votes)   The weapons addiction of all our political leaders ... has the same characteristics as drug addiction. It is enormously costly, very dangerous, provokes ugly violence, and is self-perpetuating -- all on a scale far greater than drug addicton.

Howard Zinn

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(96 votes)   A man’s fortune has its form given to it by his habits.

Anonymous

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(92 votes)   I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question ''Why did you start using narcotics in the first place?'' should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.

William S. Burroughs
1914-1997, American Writer

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(92 votes)   To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off.

C. E. Montague
1867-1928, British Author, Journalist

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(87 votes)   Habits… the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction… You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.

Juliene Berk

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