Addiction

(358 votes)   Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Frank Outlaw

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(331 votes)   I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody's going to experiment with those things they really need to educate themselves about them. People just taking the chemicals and diving in without having any kind of preparation about what they're about to experience tend to have no frame of reference, so they're missing everything flying by and all these new perspectives. It's just a waste. They reach a little bit of spiritual enlightenment, but they end up going, 'Well, now I need that drug to get back there again.' The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.

Maynard James Keenan

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(713 votes)   Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.

Spanish proverb

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(658 votes)   A habit is a shirt made of iron.

Czech proverb

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(642 votes)   People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.

Ramona L. Anderson

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(591 votes)   Our sickness is between our ears.

Anonymous

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(564 votes)   In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

Aldous Huxley

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(557 votes)   All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation

W. H. Auden

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(555 votes)   Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Carl Gustav Jung

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(542 votes)   My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(532 votes)   Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(512 votes)   All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

Thomas Szasz

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(511 votes)   A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

C. S. Lewis

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(501 votes)   All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

Henry Ward Beecher

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(439 votes)   What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

Franklin P. Jones

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