Deepening awareness and nonjudgmental acceptance of one’s thoughts fosters a new relationship with them, creating the space to purposefully shift mental focus away from the ruminative thought patterns that pave the road to suffering.

— Dan Mager

It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.

— Steven Kassels

It was painful to contemplate the distance between the future of accomplishment I'd imagined for myself twenty years earlier, and the reality...it was painful to understand that the cushion of exceptionality invoked by the drug had made me oblivious to my inertia. And it was painful to have to define myself again, at an age when most people are happy in their own skins.

— Ann Marlowe

Life isn't like a Full House episode. There isn't going to be an easy out to every conflict. There is no milkman, paperboy, or evening TV. There are good moments and bad moments and not everything will tie together nicely in the end. But that's life, and I think I'm finally starting to get it.

— Jodie Sweetin

Not, maybe. Definitely! We have an expression back home in Haiti, which says something like ‘a man who is thinking with his penis.’ That is what you are Michael. That doesn’t mean that you are addicted to sex or pornography. You are not a pervert of any kind. Contrary! You are just too sensitive with women. You fall in love at the blink of an eye and all your decisions are based on your passions towards a particular woman. Your mind gets blurry because not enough blood goes to your brain. And your heart pumps all the blood back to your penis and that is why you are a man who thinks with his penis.” (Ch.7)

— Stevan V. Nikolic

Once upon a time the future was supposed to be brighter, shinier and more fun. When did that vision pass? When did the word 'new' lose its luster? Now the past is supposed to hold the hopes we once confided to the future. We're directing attachments that used to go forward backward.

— Ann Marlowe

Resentment is like a drug. Once you pick it up, it will only get worse and worse until you surrender and do the work to let it go.

— Samantha Leahy

The fear of the drugs running out is manageable-the fear of time running down isn't.

— Ann Marlowe

The fear of the drugs running out is manageable-the fear of time running down isn’t.

— Ann Marlowe

Willpower, though important in its own way, is never enough. In order for you to be truly powerful, you must open up and trust in something beyond yourself—something you cannot prove for certain.

— Seth Adam Smith