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addiction Quotes

12 of the best book quotes about addiction

“reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.”

Richard J. Foster

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Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

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“When you become addict in to MATERIAL things in life then the TRUE natural life start to run away from you, YES! it’s can give you certain pleasure in the society but in the same time it will sabotage your true HAPPINESS of life which we could have simply with GRATITUDE and FORGIVENESS”

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“Neurotic shame is the root and fuel of all compulsive/addictive behaviors.”

John Bradshaw

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Healing the Shame that Binds You

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“Jess drew the way some people drank whiskey. The peace would start at the top of his muddled brain and seep down through his tired and tensed-up body. Lord, he loved to draw.”

Katherine Paterson

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Bridge to Terabithia

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Jesse Oliver Aarons, Jr.

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“The one who has the little need is the one who controls the whole relationship. You can see this dynamic so clearly because usually in every relationship there is one who loves the most and the other who doesn’t love, who only takes advantage of the one who gives his or her heart. You can see the way they manipulate each other, their actions and reactions, and they are just like the provider and the drug addict.”

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“Emotional energy has got to go somewhere, and self-loathing is a powerful emotion. Turned inwards, it becomes our personal hells: addiction, obsession, compulsion, depression, violent relationships, illness. Projected outward it becomes our collective hells: violence, war, crime, oppression. But it’s all the same thing. Hell has many mansions too.”

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″All addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can’t stand it. We feel we have to soften it, pad it with something, and we become addicted to whatever it is that seems to ease the pain. In fact, the rampant materialism that we see in the world stems from this moment. There are so many ways that have been dreamt up to entertain us away from the moment, soften its hard edge, deaden it so we don’t have to feel the full impact of the pain that arises when we cannot manipulate the situation to make us come out looking fine.″

Pema Chödrön

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When Things Fall Apart

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“This change in him as Fred was an economy of the passions. Firemen and doctors and morticians did the same trip in their work.”

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“Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one.”

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differentiating reality

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“The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker.”

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keeping addiction under control

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There were some things I liked about this, and some I didn’t. I love that Clarice Bean is a bookworm, addicted to the Ruby Redford series about a young girl who lives a secret double life as an international spy. I liked the creativity in the text layout, meandering about the page as Clarice’s thoughts meander during class.

Lauren Child

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Utterly Me, Clarice Bean

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“Jean-Baptiste “JB” Marion, a quick-witted painter who wants to make a name in the art world. The book follows their relationships changing under the influence of success, wealth, addiction, and pride.”

Sally Rooney

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JB Marion

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Beautiful world, Where Are You?

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