No one is entitled to anything. Everything we get in this life we have worked for. And sometimes we take on baggage we never even signed up for, but that doesn't mean you deserve it. I wake up everyday wishing I could change things, but I can't change past. All I can do is change the future.

— E.M. Youman

Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.

— Alcoholics Anonymous

Note: addiction diverts attention

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) does not work. Opiate addicts live in our communities and in our families & they work in our businesses.

— Steven Kassels

Not much more than a broke disgrace who's hooked on tonics, so excuse him if his poker face has puke on it.

— Hannibal Lecture

Quit while you’re ahead. All the best gamblers do.

— Baltasar Gracián Y Morales

Regardless of the different stages in our human development, unless we learn how to create loving and fulfilling relationships (with ourselves and others), addiction will follow – not necessarily as a manifestation of substance misuse but in the form of codependency, compulsive thinking, unhealthy relationships, sex and love addictions, overeating, insidious incarnations of self-harm and so on.

— Christopher Dines

Scores of high-powered men and women are addicted to substances or destructive addictive patterns of behavior. As a matter of fact, it is easier to hide one’s addiction while maintaining a high-powered position compared to the addicts and alcoholics we see sleeping on street corners.

— Christopher Dines

She pulled off the highway and quickly changed into the Gurkha.

— Dianne Harman

Some addicts do not even have basic parenting and instead are beaten, sexually abused, left to be looked after by a dysfunctional ‘carer’, put in orphan homes or rejected by their community. If you calculate the millions of emotionally neglected children and observe them growing up together trying to ‘get by in life’, you will understand why many adults (adult children) have addictive personalities.

— Christopher Dines