Quotes on Addiction

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master.

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.

Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience ... centered primarily around bodily pleasures and status rankings. ... The common denominator is a rugged and ragged individualism and rapacious hedonism in quest of a perennial "high" in body and mind.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

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.

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.