You’ve recognised a fundamental feature of an addict’s life. Maintaining your habit is so important you’ve no real interest in anything else.
– Marian Keyes
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- I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn’t know what or where home was. – Marian Keyes
- …as you know, I don’t believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs… – Marian Keyes
- Honestly, if you’re looking for love and you’re not too choosy, hang around a hardware store fingering screws. – Marian Keyes
- Waiting to be ‘better’ is the wrong approach. It’s learning to live with it. – Marian Keyes
- It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them stingthat I discovered I was crying. – Marian Keyes
- I’d rather eat nothing than eat a carrot. – Marian Keyes
- Survival was an unpleasent thing to witness. – Marian Keyes
- Guilt is a self-indulgence. – Marian Keyes
- When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together. – Joyce Rachelle
- One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off. – Ian Frazier
- If magic violates the fundamental laws of nature, they clearly weren’t all that fundamental. – Ruthanna Emrys
- The facts that make the world real– these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it. – Ingeborg Bachmann
- With the same habit of mind, even if you live thousands of lives, all will be the same! Get a different habit of mind to get a different life! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one’s worse habits. – Oscar Wilde
- What is important may or may not be important but what is thought to be important is indeed important. – Hemanta Bhatt
- Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you. – Pericles
- Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others in the service of self-interest. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Righteousness acts never in its own interest, but in the interest of fellow men. – Thaddeus of Vitovnica
- The more interest you show in your spouse, the more interest your spouse will show in you. – Lindsey Rietzsch
- Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral. – Gore Vidal
- It is in your best interest to avoid sleep debt, otherwise be prepared to pay both the DEBT and the INTEREST! – Stan Jacobs
- Humans don’t have any type of interest… HAVING SO MUCH STUFF AROUND THEM AND SO LITTLE INTEREST IN THEM. – Deyth Banger
- There is an excitement in creating a life, rather than maintaining a life you are not excited about living. – Shannon L Alder
- I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, I’d be wise to develop the habit of following my nature. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Sow a thought and reap an action, sow an action and reap a habit, sow a habit and reap a destiny – John Cleaver – Dan Wells
- Sow a thought, and you reap an act;Sow an act, and you reap a habit;Sow a habit, and you reap a character;Sow a character, and you reap a destiny. – Samuel Smiles
- Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God. – Elizabeth George
- The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character. – John Climacus
- For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity. – Augustine of Hippo
- What is more important to a library than anything else — than everything else — is the fact that it ex – Archibald MacLeish
- That’s the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own. – Daniel Keyes
- To keep my life free of evil I must of necessity keep my life full of God, for keeping my life full of anything else will give evil everything else. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- You were born into the world to fulfill a specific purpose in life. May you recognised your unique calling. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to-”instead of them-”change reality. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- It goes without saying that a great majority of men are sex addicts, or would be if they could manage to get laid. – Drew Nellins Smith
- Drug addicts had their drugs. Alcoholics had their bottles. Serial killers had their murders. – Jess C Scott
- Altitude sickness, unregulated drugs and medical gas enabled workers to become drug abusers/addicts – Steven Magee
- Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it. – John Grisham
- In a way, we’re all addicts by nature. – Shannon Mullen