Quotes about Holism

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The GeraniumWhen I put her out, once, by the garbage pail,She looked so limp and bedraggled,So foolish and trusting, lik — Theodore Roethke
The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind. — Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story
When people view their lives as insignificant, they escape using pleasure. — Moxie Will
Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. — Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
Drinking is something people do; it's not what you are. But when it becomes what you are, you need to think about becomi — Tim Cowlishaw, Drunk on Sports
Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusiv — David L. Calof, The Couple Who Became Each Other: Stories of Healing and Transformation from a Leading Hypnotherapist
To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they — Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
We wouldn't have much need of a war if people stopped using drugs. It's like taking up a fight against the use of headac — it will never work until the condition causing people's headache pain is healed.
People don't like to talk about alcohol. They don't like to think about it, except in the most superficial of ways. They — Olivia Laing, The Trip to Echo Spring
One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe. — Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
It was your choice to sleep with her Gavin! It didn't just happen! — Belinda G. Buchanan
one doesn't even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn't think ofus, that'sfine. — Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
And you know what the worst thing was?The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried. — Jack McCarthy
We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstract — William Barrett, The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization
Mechanistic thinking focuses on “what,” and holistic thinking digs into “why. — Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
One cannot properly drink without self-deception: the lips have to deny the liquor that just passed down the throat. It — Jerzy Pilch, The Mighty Angel
You don't have to go back to the way things were. Just go back to the point where you left off. Don't start over... just — Dave Matthes, Return to the Madlands
She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once be — Nicholas Sparks, The Best of Me
The Big Book’s chapter We Agnostics draws a line in the sand: God either is or He isn’t. What was our choice to be (Alco — Joe C., Beyond Belief: Agnostic Musings for 12 Step Life: Finally, a Daily Reflection Book for Nonbelievers, Freethinkers and Everyone
By now, I hope you recognize this as one more example of the reductionist paradigm at work, even when it's couched in na — T. Colin Campbell, Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition