{"quotes":[{"text":"Overeating is the addiction of choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions. It's a way of fucking yourself up while still remaining fully functional, because you have to. Fat people aren't indulging in the 'luxury' of their addiction making them useless, chaotic, or a burden. Instead, they are slowly self-destructing in a way that doesn't inconvenience anyone. And that's why it's so often a woman's addiction of choice. All the quietly eating mums. All the KitKats in office drawers. All the unhappy moments, late at night, caught only in the fridge light.","author":"Caitlin Moran","tags":["addiction","candy","fat","kitkats","obesity","overeating"],"id":393,"author_id":"Caitlin+Moran"},{"text":"This was worse than a coke binge. Worse than black tar or the thrill of E. This was the devil himself snaking his way inside of my heart and bending me to his will. This was addiction, quickly morphing into obsession. And somewhere in the clouded fog that was my brain, I knew this was a game I was going to lose.","author":"A. Zavarelli","tags":["addiction","dark","love","obsession","twisted"],"id":1077,"author_id":"A.+Zavarelli"},{"text":"It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.","author":"Andrew Davidson","tags":["addiction","withdrawal"],"id":1599,"author_id":"Andrew+Davidson"},{"text":"Compassion is the most powerful tool you can have when it comes to healing addictions of any kind. Put simply, what your partner needs most from you is compassion.","author":"Christopher Kennedy Lawford","tags":["addict","addiction","compassion","healing","recovery"],"id":2191,"author_id":"Christopher+Kennedy+Lawford"},{"text":"Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set ourselves on the fruitless mission of filling the gaping hole within us with material things. Blindly, we consume more and more, believing we are hungry for more food, status, or money, yet really we are hungry for connection.","author":"Vironika Tugaleva","tags":["addiction","connection","consumerism","hope","love","materialism","spirituality"],"id":2553,"author_id":"Vironika+Tugaleva"},{"text":"The lack of culpability of the perpetrator and his or her transference of blame onto alcohol or other substances only perpetuates the violent behaviors.","author":"Asa Don Brown","tags":["addict","addiction","addictive-behavior","alcohol","asa-don-brown","domestic-violence","drugs","substances","the-sober-world-magazine"],"id":3387,"author_id":"Asa+Don+Brown"},{"text":"In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on the road to self-destruction. It does not affirm but places upon us greater and greater demands. It destroys the outside world until it is hard to live outside war's grip. It takes a higher and higher dose to achieve any thrill. Finally, one ingests war only to remain numb.","author":"Chris Hedges","tags":["addiction","narcotic","war"],"id":3835,"author_id":"Chris+Hedges"},{"text":"Some, they didn't make it.The temptation just too strong.How can darkness cloud the mindTo what I know as wrong?","author":"Kimberly Nalen","tags":["addict","addiction","drug-addiction","drugs","poetry"],"id":4169,"author_id":"Kimberly+Nalen"},{"text":"Your identity is not in who you can be. It is in who you always have been.","author":"Ricky Maye","tags":["addiction","confidence","depression","fail","failure","failures","future","growing","identity","identity-crisis","image","mirror","past","purpose","self-harm","self-helm","self-image","self-improvement","to-write-love-on-her-arms","twloha"],"id":4412,"author_id":"Ricky+Maye"},{"text":"...[I]f at the time of its release the soul is tainted and impure, because it has always associated with the body and cared for it and loved it, and has been so beguiled by the body and its passions and pleasures that nothing seems real to it but those physical things which can be touched and seen and eaten and drunk and used for sexual enjoyment; and if it is accustomed to hate and fear and avoid what is invisible and hidden from our eyes, but intelligible and comprehensible by philosophy - if the soul is in this state, do you think that it will escape independent and uncontaminated?","author":"Socrates","tags":["addiction","faithlessness","godlessness","sin","vice"],"id":4745,"author_id":"Socrates"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":635,"pages":64,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}