“ People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit. Criss Jami
“ When we practise self-compassion, we look after ourselves just as though we are nurturing a small child. In fact, a major part of grieving our original pain work (so that we can heal and be emotionall… Christopher Dines
“ I don't see money as evil or good: how can illusion be evil or good? But I don't see heroin or meth as evil or good, either. Which is more addictive & debilitating, money or meth? Attachment to illusi… Daniel Suelo
“ Men are a compilation of every experience and relationship they have ever lived through. Some experiences have bettered your man while others have battered him. The man standing before you is the resu… Dave Samples
“ Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they tell you how it'll all get better and better as you… David Foster Wallace
“ One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-de… Mike Norton
“ There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107) Sherman Alexie
“ Jesus came to bring life more abundantly. He came to save the soulsick, to deliver those bound up in sin, to break the chains of bondage and addiction. He came to heal the hurting, and comfort and res… Teresa Schultz
“ Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody. Criss Jami
“ I loved books, even as I loved the similar way opium had of transporting a mind elsewhere Karina Cooper
“ He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with all addicts,gratification was the important thing. Jeet Thayil
“ A lot of people here some South in your mouth, and they automatically think you're dumb. They think if you talk funny, you are funny. – Lloyd Hand David Pietrusza
“ We are all hungry for genuine connection and caring, and we will not get this unless we find our Soul's tribe. If we don't find this, we'll kill ourselves, either by finding an addiction to mask the p… Christiane Northrup
“ The Bible does not deny that we were various things—addicts, homosexuals, hateful, prideful, pornographic masturbators—but that is what we were (past tense) (1 Cor. 6:9-11; Titus 3:3-5). The emphasis… Paul O'Brien
“ Don’t ever forget you are beautiful, although your life, your past and your present situation may be ugly. You are beautiful. Ricky Maye
“ It is strange, is it not, how an accident of a millimeter here, a millimeter there, makes one face so important. Think about it Elliot, She has two eyes, a nose, a mouth, just like everyone else. It,s… Judith Krantz
“ The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to—instead of them—change reality. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
