Tomsick Quotes & Sayings

In the addiction recovery community, we recognise that addicts can starve themselves of receiving social, sexual or emotional nourishment. Sex and love addicts starve themselves of a healthy, personal relationship and, consequently, deliberately avoid wholesome relationships with other human beings. We're getting quite deep now, but there are many papers and books published on sexual and emotional anorexia. I have also suffered from emotional anorexia. It's no myth! — Christopher Dines

Our past thinking has determined our present status, and our present thinking will determine our future status; for man is what man thinks. — C. G. Jung

The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired at, half convinced that I was killing, not human beings, but enemy costumes, which had borne their contents here from a distant land; and if some living man suffered for his enslavement to the uniform, or was penetrated by the bullets aimed at it well, that was unavoidable, and the fault couldn't be placed at my feet. The private charade was not equivalent to Courage, but it enabled a Callousness that served a similar purpose. — Robert Charles Wilson

There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. — Eric Hoffer

The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning. — Martin Buber

God created you for a special purpose. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Be at peace in the oneness of things, and all errors will disappear by themselves. — Sengcan

There was also the fact that sending a penniless writer to get $135 worth of beer was - as Khrushchev said of Nixon - 'like sending a goat to tend the cabbage'. — Hunter S. Thompson

It's always a risk. Wherever there is great emotion. because there is power in that. And few people handle power well. — Morgan Matson

He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim. — Rita Mae Brown

Stay away from milk. It is nature's perfect food - but only if you are a calf. — Mark Hyman