Quotes about Addiction
Succumbing to a lifetime of guilt is just another form of approval addiction. ARE
- Joyce Meyer
We become addicted to approval when we base our self-worth on how people treat us or on what we believe they think about us.
- Joyce Meyer
Steep'd amid honey'd morphine, my windpipe throttled in fakes of death.
- Walt Whitman
My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.
- Beth Moore
Alcoholism is a disease. People will debate whether it is a disease of the mind, of genetics, or of circumstances. I don't have the answer to that debate, and frankly I don't care because when you try to pinpoint 'why,' it can often lead to blaming another person, an incident in your past, or circumstances.
- Eva Marie
There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power is like saltwater; the more you drink, the thirstier you get.
- Charles Colson
But I want to motivate. I wanna motivate every person to leave here to be a better father, a better husband, to break addictions to come up higher in their walk with the Lord.
- Joel Osteen
If you are 8 hours a day in a job you hate, you're not going to be a very good spouse; it can contribute to chemical dependency, financial mismanagement.
- Max Lucado