The psyche cannot tolerate a vacuum of love. In the severely abused or deprived child, pain, dis-ease, and violance rush in to fill the void. In the average person in our culture, who has been only "normally" deprived of touch, anxiety and an insatiable hunger for posessions replace the missing eros. The child lacking a sense of welcome, joyous belonging, gratuitous security, will learn to hoard the limited supply of affection. According to the law of psychic compensation, not being held leads to holding on, grasping, addiction, posessiveness. Gradually, things replace people as a source of pleasure and security. When the gift of belonging with is denied, the child learns that love means belongin to. To the degree we are arrested at this stage of development, the needy child will dominate our motivations. Other people and things (and there is fundamentally no difference) will be seen as existing solely for the purpose of "my" survival and satisfaction. "Mine" will become the most important word.
Sam KeenStichwörter: addiction narcissism codependency
I once tried to give him a friendly little "drugs chat". He politely corrected me on every single fact, then said he'd noticed I drank above the recommended guidelines of Red Bull and did I think I might have an addiction? That was the last time I tried to act like the older sister.
Sophie KinsellaStichwörter: humour addiction adulthood
So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in a thousand different forms. The diet form, the romance form, the addiction form, the overriding hunger for this purchase or that job, this relationship or that one. Hunger may be insatiable by nature, it may be fathomless, but our will to fill it, our often blind tenacity in the face of it, can be extraordinary.
Caroline KnappOftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all.
Criss JamiStichwörter: self-sacrifice addiction sacrifice obsession competition lose win lose-everything
I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.
David Foster WallaceStichwörter: addiction david-foster-wallace
I never met an addict who came from a nice home . I've met addicts that came from families that had money and nice houses. But never from a nice home.
Sara GranStichwörter: addiction noir families
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.
Nassim Nicholas TalebStichwörter: addiction labor laboring-class sugar wage carbohydrates wage-slavery diabesity dr-hyman dr-robert-lustig sugar-addiction sugar-the-bitter-truth
There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'
If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.
Stichwörter: addiction purpose-in-life manhood clinging codependency dysfunctional-relationship howard-thurman
I became addicted to the guilt. The strange thrill of doing something so morbid, so off-color, and so completely wrong.
Marcella PixleyStichwörter: addiction
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
Oswald SpenglerStichwörter: addiction suicide memoir transformation recovery surviving
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