Quotes About Substance

We are all spiritually powerless, however, and not just those physically addicted to a substance, which is why I address this book to everyone. Alcoholics just have their powerlessness visible for all to see. The rest of us disguise it in different ways, and overcompensate for our more hidden and subtle addictions and attachments, especially our addiction to our way of thinking.

Stinking thinking" is the universal addiction. Substance addictions like alcohol and drugs are merely the most visible form of addiction, but actually we are all addicted to our own habitual way of doing anything, our own defenses, and most especially, our patterned way of thinking, or how we process our reality.

We are all spiritually powerless, however, and not just those physically addicted to a substance, which is why I address this book to everyone.

God is gathering us out of all regions till he can make resurrection of our own hearts from the very earth [emphasis added], and teach us that we are all of one substance, and members of one another; for the one who loves his neighbor loves God, and the one who loves God, loves his own soul.

Rebecca's eyes were like faith,—the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Cocaine, hashish, opium, Ecstacy: all seduce with the promise of rapture or exuberance-and then they collect.

Everybody is on something these days. It's a racket. Overprescribing, masking the problem.

The power of monsters is, it is a way of giving almost tangible substance to fears, beliefs, things that aren't real. You can coalesce it and draw it, or describe it, and it's a monster.

My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.

Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

Information, long of reach, devastating, and as a side benefit, a substance with no serious legal repercussions, was superior to any other form of power.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

the Father is the Fountain-head of the Son, and the Son is the outflowing of the Father; and the Father and Son pour forth the Spirit; and the Unity, which is the essence of the Fountain-head, is also the substance of the three Persons.

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

This is the short and the long of it.

The best in this kind are but shadows.

Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows.

When it comes to persecuting people for pot, there's a long list of horror stories. The thing that gets me is, why? Why waste precious law enforcement resources on bullshit? I

The most dangerous thing you can do with marijuana. Is get caught with it.

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss.

Inner qualities, not outer appearances.

If nothing around us has any genuine substance, then all the happiness or unhappiness we feel comes from our mind. All qualities, attractive and unattractive, are a product of mind alone.

Television is the creamy filling that distracts us from the substance our lives

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.