#addictions

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#addictions #breaks #choose #down #going

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. ↗

— Peter Singer

#complex #decision-making #even #human #long-term

The easiest thing is to say no. What's not so easy is telling yourself to stop. ↗

— Alix

#choices #life #life

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

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society. ↗

— Keith Miller

#beneath #control #disease #mark #our

How could I have never told anyone what He had done for me? Nothing else had worked. Nothing had been able to break the chains that kept me living on the edge. Nothing....except the gentleness of His touch. ↗

— Nikki Rosen

#darkness #deception #faith #hope #life

Promises from Lo are like bars at 2 a.m.--empty. ↗

— Krista Ritchie

#childhood-friends #college-romance #love-story #love

We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our clothes, shelter, and education, we hunted and gathered our food. We are not addicts. “I propose that most addictions come from our surrendering our real powers, that is, our powers of creativity.” We are not passive couch potatoes either. “It is not the essence of humans to be passive. We are players. We are actors on many stages…. We are curious, we are yearning to wonder, we are longing to be amazed… to be excited, to be enthusiastic, to be expressive. In short to be alive.” We are also not cogs in a machine. To be so would be to give up our personal freedoms so as to not upset The Machine, whatever that machine is. Creativity keeps us creating the life we wish to live and advancing humanity’s purpose as well. ↗

— Matthew Fox

#addictions #consumer-culture #consumerism #creation #creativity

When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#anger

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. ↗

— Judith Wright

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