Addiction Denial Quotes & Sayings

There are innumerable definitions of God, because His manifestations are innumerable. — Mahatma Gandhi

And for all our sakes, tame that mess on top of your head. Use fire and a poleaxe if you have to. — Scott Lynch

Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial. — William H. Calvin

Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it's just better form. — Geoffrey Wood

If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised. — Dorothy Parker

The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain. — Gabor Mate

When anything difficult arises - any kind of conflict, any notion of unworthiness, anything that feels distasteful, embarrassing, or painful - instead of trying to get rid of it, we breathe it in. The three poisons are passion (this includes craving or addiction), aggression, and ignorance (which includes denial or the tendency to shut down and close out). We would usually think of these poisons as something bad, something to — Pema Chodron

Advertising doesn't cause addictions. But it does create a climate of denial and it contributes mightily to a belief in the quick fix, instant gratification, the dreamworld, and escape from all pain and boredom. All of this is part of what addicts believe and what we hope for when we reach for our particular substance ... Addiction begins with the hope that something "out there" can instantly fill up the emptiness inside. Advertising is all about this false hope. — Jean Kilbourne

The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addiction is a massive problem in our society. It may be the most pernicious of all addictions because it's so hard for a person to break his delusion and denial. How can anything be wrong with loving God and giving your life for good works and service to mankind? — John Bradshaw

Life and all that is in it
is a gift from the infinite mind;
And the only way that life can go wrong
is by the limited finite mind. — Eric Foley Saucier

Our strategy [at Chelsea] is to bring up our own players through the academy, which we have invested a lot in, and hope it gives results — Roman Abramovich

I would rather be right than President. — Henry Clay

The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction. — C. H. Dodd

Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial. — David Stafford

When denial is in play, a person simply refuses to recognize the truth, no matter how apparent. — Taite Adams

It is left to each of us to balance contentment regarding what God has allotted to us in life with some divine discontent resulting from what we are in comparison to what we have the power to become. — Neal A. Maxwell

As in all addiction, we are in denial about the degree to which we are controlled by our god-substitutes. — Timothy Keller

COLBIE: I'm an optimist. I believe in love and romance and happily ever after. — Bijou Hunter

Women's genetic celebrity power magnifies men's protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men's addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or in the denial stage thus we either don't see it, or when confronted, deny it. — Warren Farrell

I'm kind of a homebody. My husband says I like to just stay home and do nothing, but that's just how I am. — Kristi Yamaguchi

The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become. — Gisele Bundchen

We must be honest here, and not defensive; the issues are now too grave and too urgent. Our inability to see our personal failures is paralleled by our inability to see our institutional and national sins too. It is the identical and same pattern of addiction and denial. Thank God that Pope John Paul II introduced into our vocabulary words like "structural sin" and "institutional evil." It was not even part of the conversation in most of Christian history up to now, as we exclusively concentrated on "personal" sins. The three sources of evil were traditionally called "the world, the flesh, and the devil." We so concentrated on the flesh that we let the world and "the devil" get off scot-free.8 — Richard Rohr

The only time you can have maximum economic progress is when social programs don't exist. — James Cook