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#1

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#2

“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship

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#3

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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#4

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, knowledge

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#5

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom

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#6

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: addiction, alchohol, drinking, drugs, loneliness, melancholy, pain

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#7

“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

tags: addiction, life-lessons, philosophy, thinking, thoughts

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#8

“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: addiction, psyche, psychology

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#9

“An intelligent person can rationalize anything; a wise person doesn't try.”
― Jen Knox, Chaos Magic

tags: fiction-writer, flash-fiction, intelligence, jen-knox, philosphy-of-life, psychology, wisdom

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#10

“If you are an approval addict, your behaviour is as easy to control as that of any other junkie. All a manipulator need do is a simple two-step process: Give you what you crave, and then threaten to take it away. Every drug dealer in the world plays this game.”
― Harriet B. Braiker, Who's Pulling Your Strings? How to Break the Cycle of Manipulation and Regain Control of Your Life

tags: addiction, approval-of-others, manipulation

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#11

“Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: addiction, habit

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#12

“An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: abuse, addiction, alcohol, alcoholic, aqua, aquaholic, drinking, habits, health, indulgence, intoxicate, obsession, over-indulgence, substance-abuse, water

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#13

“I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.”
― David Lee Roth

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#14

“When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't...”
― Luke Davies, Candy

tags: addiction

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#15

“There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

tags: addiction, addicts, pain, pain-relief, trauma

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#16

“I am a work in progress.”
― Violet Yates, Lost & Found

tags: addiction, depression, poetry, recovery

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#17

“One thing I've learned is it's better to be addicted to things than people. You get hooked on a thing and if someone takes it from you, you can find another source. Only people can really hurt you. Only people can push you out into the cold permanently.”
― A.M. Riley, Immortality is the Suck

tags: a-m-riley, addiction, drugs, relationships

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#18

“Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just wasn't fun anymore. The drugs had become a part of my routine. Something to wake me up. Something to help me sleep. Something to calm my nerves. There was a time when I was able to wake up, go to sleep, and have fun without a pill or a line to help me function. These days it felt like I might have a nervous breakdown if I didn't have them.”
― Cherie Currie

tags: addiction, drugs, neon-angel, pill

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#19

“Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow”
― Larry Michael Dredla

tags: addiction, inspirational, life-experience

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#20

“Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

tags: addiction, contradictions, cure, drugs, life, problems

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#21

“I'm not crying out for help, but I am sharing my experience in the hopes that readers will get something out of it. I'm not the one who gets to decide what that is, if anything. I'm just starting the "journey" if you will, so I can't possibly know yet what the "message" of my life really is. I only know what has happened so far, and how I've felt up until this moment. I agree that reading about the pain of others is concerning when they are still hurting and in the same situation as when they wrote about it. But what can you do? You can reach out, ask how you can help and be there to listen. You can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved. You can't love someone who doesn't love themselves enough to take care of themselves and stay out of bad situations. Believe me, I know this.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

tags: addiction, drugs, experience, journal, life, prostitution, sex

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#22

“You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

tags: addiction, lack-of-interest

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#23

“My fear of abandonment is exceeded only by my terror of intimacy.”
― Ethlie Ann Vare

tags: addiction, drugs, love-addiction, self-help, self-help-book, sex, sex-addiction

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#24

“Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.”
― John Grisham, The Testament

tags: addiction, addicts, immunity, shame

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#25

“Drugs suck more than anything else I have ever liked so much.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

tags: addiction, drugs

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#26

“This is what I think. Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence if you want, but it's a fucked-up way, like a rat in a maze. We all want the same thing. We all have this hole. The thing you want offers relief, but it's a trap.”
― Tess Callahan, April & Oliver

tags: addiction

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#27

“It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with [referring to crystal methamphetamines]”
― Fergie

tags: addiction, crystal-meth, drugs, female, life, musician

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#28

“We love the things that destroy us, because in that destruction we truly feel alive.”
― Robert Pobi, Bloodman

tags: addiction, destruction, life, love

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#29

“Every time I draw a clean breath, I'm like a fish out of water.”
― Narcotics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous

tags: adam-gottbetter, addicts, crystal-meth, drug, drug-addiction

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#30

“I think it's better to be comfortable in your skin than to be miserable being who you are. Sure, the meth is horrible. It ruins people from the inside out. It's a waiting game --- it's not a matter of if it destroys you, but rather a matter of when it will. I've made it this far. I'm not sending a message that it's "cool" to be on drugs and tell everyone about it. I don't sum myself up as a drug addict and a hooker. That's not what I am. Those are juts things I do, they don't define me. Jobs and addictions do not make us who we are.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

tags: addiction, crystal-meth, drugs, prostitution, sex

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