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"Complications take many forms, including an imbalanced lifestyle, toxic relationships, hidden emotional debts, resistance, indecision, addictions, and negative conditioned beliefs. When our life is overly complicated, we're weighed down by superfluous things at every level."
"It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of."
"Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes."
"I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy."
"The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene"
"If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will get involved too."
"the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it."
"What was so painful about Amy’s death is that I know that there is something I could have done. I could have passed on to her the solution that was freely given to me. Don’t pick up a drink or drug, one day at a time. It sounds so simple; it actually is simple but it isn’t easy; it requires incredible support and fastidious structuring."
"Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction."
"I was a functional addict."
"Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit."
"Music is an addiction."
"We cannot drill our way out of our addiction to oil."
"MySpace is an addiction."
"Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story."
"There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism."
"[While] my life started taking on all the problems of addiction. So that took me off into an area where relationships were absolutely impossible to handle on any real level. . . . Even communicating with other people was impossible."
"The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed."
"We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life."
"Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me."
