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self-acceptance

Administrator — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:55:39 +0000

I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
- Jennifer Louden

Quotes – Famous Quotes – Popular Myth

Administrator — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:35:41 +0000

Quotes – Famous Quotes – Popular Myth

Contrary to popular myth, abusers do not suffer from anger management problems. They manage their anger just fine — whenever there are witnesses.
- S.C. Elgin

Addition and Disease

Administrator — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 20:04:18 +0000

Addition and Disease

Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. I know people think it’s a disease … If you have a brain tumor, if you have cancer, that’s a disease. To say that an addiction is a disease is not fair to the real diseases of the world.
- C. C. DeVille (1962 – )

Addiction Quotes

Administrator — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 04:43:30 +0000

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

- Shirley Chisholm 1924-, American Social activist

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
- Carl Jung 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

Addiction Quotes

Administrator — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 03:23:51 +0000

“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