I think stress is
I think stress is an addiction. It can be tied to work addiction or busyness addiction or success addiction. Gabrielle Bernstein
Addiction
The fact is that
The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is impossible to
It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour. Gabor Mate
The difference between passion
The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates. Gabor Mate
Not why the addiction,
Not why the addiction, but why the pain. Gabor Mate
A hurt is at
A hurt is at the center of all addictive behaviors. . . . The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as excruciating, and it may even be entirely hidden—but it’s there. As we’ll see, the effects of early stress or adverse experiences directly shape both the psychology and the neurobiology of … Read more
I was becoming more
I was becoming more cunning than an animal in hiding my supply of morphine. A squirrel saving nuts is limited by its undeveloped imagination … but I was not so handicapped. A squirrel, for example, is debarred from sending money to some greedy doctor or druggist and making arrangements to have a bit of powder … Read more
[On her morphine addiction:]
[On her morphine addiction:] I was meant to ‘taper off.’ At times I felt such pains as must afflict a creature while a bigger beast eats and claws at its middle. God-awful things were hiding underneath my bed, and it was no use telling me they were not there – I knew they were, and … Read more
All glory comes from
All glory comes from daring to begin. Eugene Fitch Ware
Have this Chet Baker
Have this Chet Baker movie coming out and in that situation, I went down the rabbit hole studying Chet Baker and being obsessed with the period and the music and the relationships and the dynamic, and everything, drug addiction. There was so much I wanted to get at to kind of get at the truth. … Read more