Quotes About Dependency

Never love something so much it can be used to control you.

I would submit, sir, that you and your family are addicted to money.

They had passed a point of no return. And as it happened, there was an inexpensive substitute for OxyContin that was cheaper and stronger and widely available: heroin.

Some participants had said that "the only difference between heroin and OxyContin is that you can get OxyContin from a doctor.

not everyone who developed a problem with OxyContin started out as a recreational abuser. In fact, many people who were prescribed the drug for legitimate pain conditions and took it precisely as the doctor ordered found that they, too, had become hopelessly addicted.

mean, we have an OC pill that's 80 milligrams per pill. Now, that is as much oxycodone as in 16 Percocet tablets . . . That's why the addicts want to go after our pills.

Like a lot of people who use heroin, she found a certain glamour in it, until she didn't. She used the drug on and off for years, but in the late 1980s, it took over.

A veces era muy mala. Estaba llena de necesidad. Como si la forma del mundo dependiera de su estado de ánimo. Como si ella tuviera alguna importancia.

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important

Let me just say, if you have a hole in your heart and you are seeking for other people to fill your neediness, it doesn't work that way.

For a time Robert protected me, then was dependent on me, and then possessive of me. His transformation was the rose of Genet, and he was pierced deeply by his blooming.

For a time Robert protected me, then was dependent on me, and then possessive of me. His transformation was the rose of Genet, and he was pierced deeply by his blooming. I too desired to feel more of the world. Yet sometimes that desire was nothing more than a wish to go backward where our mute light spread from hanging lanterns with mirrored panels. We had ventured out like Maeterlinck's children seeking the bluebird and were caught in the twisted briars of our new experiences.

Whatever market for manufactured goods emerged in colonial and dependent countries did not become the "eternal market" of these countries. Thrown wide open by colonization and by unequal treaties, it became an appendage of the "internal market" of Western capitalism.

Significa que no puedes vivir sin los demás -dije-. Cuando están ahí en carne y hueso, el mundo real es suficiente. Cuando estás solo, tienes que inventarte personajes, los necesitas para que te hagan compañia.

These models will recognize the inter-connectedness of all things, turning away from the mindless materialism and consumerism that has destroyed the ecological capital on which we rely.

Change is not found in defending our righteousness, but in admitting our weakness and crying for help.

Jesus demands everything, not just so we would submit to his control, but to free us from the control of things that were never designed to control us.

He lifts the burden of change off our shoulders and never calls us to do what only he can do.

He knows that parents who admit that they are inadequate and run to God make the best parents.

3. We replace vertical awe with horizontal addiction.

Without knowing it, we put our identity and inner peace in the hands of the people around us. We look to them for what no flawed human being will ever be able to deliver. We ride the roller coaster of their views of us. We begin to do things not because they are right, but because we know they will please those whose opinion of us and acceptance of us mean more than they should.

What you and I bring to our relationship with God is desperate spiritual and moral need.

Here's what happens to us all - we seek horizontally for the personal rest that we are to find vertically, and it never works. Looking to others for your inner sense of well-being is pointless.

Cuando todos los días admito qué tan necesitado estoy, todos los días medito en la gracia del Señor Jesucristo y todos los días me alimento de la sabiduría restauradora de Su Palabra, estoy motivado para compartir con los demás la gracia que todos los días estoy recibiendo de las manos de mi Salvador.