Stanton Peele famous quotes
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Recovery is about purpose and meaning in life, not “sobriety†and meetings.
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Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature...
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We often say 'love' when we really mean, and are acting out, an addiction-a sterile, ingrown dependency relationship, with another person serving as the object of our need for security.
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The addictive experience is the totality of effect produced by an involvement; it stems from pharmacological and physiological sources, but takes its ultimate form from cultural and individual constructions of experience.
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Addiction is more malleable than you know. When people come to me for therapy, they often ask me whether their behavior constitutes a real addiction (or whether they are really alcoholic, etc.). My answer is that this is not the important question. The important questions are how many problems is the involvement causing you, how much do you want to change it, and how can we go about change?
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When people can say to themselves - "What I'm doing is justified," there is little chance of their modifying a behavior.
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Anger management (which is a part of both public displays of rage and spouse abuse) is about changing a person's internal reactions to events (how they see their behavior) by changing the support environment for the behavior (making them see the behavior is wrong).
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People no longer know how to apologize, which is particularly noticeable among athletes, politicians, and entertainment figures.
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When spectators and fans say about drunken brawls, violence, and dog fights, "Well, football players are prone to these things - that's why we admire them," they are encouraging terribly detrimental behavior. You might even say - a la Roman gladiators - they are egging on this behavior.
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Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.
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Hospitals are a little like the beach. The next wave comes in, and the footprints of your pain and suffering, your delivery and recovery, are obliterated ...
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Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung’s work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out again…in Messiaen, a feeling for the music’s reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance.
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Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.
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All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.
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Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business.
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An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
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I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.
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The Almighty has His own purposes.
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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.
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