#addict

A frequent exchange of text messages is not a relationship. It's not even a pen-pal. ↗

— Ethlie Ann Vare

#love-addiction #self-help #sex #sex-addiction #love

Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#ethics #moral #business

One thing I must tell you preacher is to let go of the old life you were living before you repented, because they are playing a greater role in your life than your life as a believer.Since you have repented, you need to remove your old self like a garment and put on your new self so that you may not continue to deceive yourself or be living a double lifestyle and be arrested by death or the coming of the LORD. ALMOST THE WHOLE THING Page106 available online at amazon, barnes and noble.... ↗

— James C. Uwandu

#death

I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#addicts #death

Dear Mind, why do you keep talking to yourself? Mind: Don't blame me for your stupid Faceboook status messages & tweets. ↗

— Saurabh Sharma

#funny #humor-inspirational #twitter-addiction #inspirational

And finally the glass that contains and spills this stuff continually while the drinker hunches before it, while the bartender gathers up empties, gives back the drinker's own face. Who knows what it looks like; who cares whether or not it was young once, or ever lovely, who gives a shit about some drunk rising to stagger toward the bathroom, some man or woman or even lost angel who recklessly threw it all over—heaven, the ether, the celestial works—and said, Fuck it, I want to be human? ↗

— Kim Addonizio

#loss #love

First Embody the Emptiness of Silence Next Embody the Fullness of Honesty & Love Thus Be Heaven Sage Hope (Omid Mankoo) SH... ↗

— Omid Mankoo

#pornography-addiction #recovery #sex-addiction-solution-manual #sexual-addiction #spiritual

Looking For Love and Looking In All The Wrong Places ↗

— Gordon Rouston

#love

We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions. ↗

— Anne Wilson Schaef

#addiction #addictions #addictive #another #first

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#addicted #addictions #avoiding #basis #become