Awareness Quotes

"There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate."

- Chaz Bono

"Addictions… started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn’t seen, and were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life decisions. And they were… less intelligent than goldfish."

- William Gibson

"The priority of any addict is to anaesthetize the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief."

- Russell Brand

"You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town."

- Anne Lamott

"At first, addiction is maintained by pleasure, but the intensity of the pleasure gradually diminishes and the addiction is then maintained by the avoidance of pain."

- Frank Tallis

"Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this."

- Mercedes Ruehl

"On 'Glee,' we often tackle the tough topics that young people face - in fact, my recurring character, Wade 'Unique' Adams, is a transgender teenager who finds herself navigating a lot of the same problems many young people face around the globe."

- Alex Newell

"With the removal of questions about gayness and transgender status in the Census, we really stand to lose a lot of the progress that has been made, and certainly not to make further progress. In order to have a fair system, you need a system you can measure."

- Andrew Solomon

"I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all - I think the more we can saturate television with any gay character or lesbian character or transgender character, I think that's a really great thing. We're kind of getting past the fact that they're the punchline or that they're the novelty."

- Jesse Tyler Ferguson

"An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate."

- Criss Jami

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."

- Carl Jung

"Addiction begins with the hope that something ‘out there’ can instantly fill up the emptiness inside."

- Jean Kilbourne

"At first, addiction is maintained by pleasure, but the intensity of this pleasure gradually diminishes and the addiction is then maintained by the avoidance of pain."

- Frank Tallis

"If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim."

- Ann Landers

"What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood."

- Alice Miller

"Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem."

- Kurt Cobain

"When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over."

- John Wayne

"It's getting to be ri-goddamn-diculous."

- John Wayne

"Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded.... They shout you down and won't let you speak if you disagree with them."

- John Wayne

"I have found a certain type calls himself a Liberal...Now I always thought I was a Liberal. I came up terribly surprised one time when I found out that I was a Right-Wing Conservative Extremist, when I listened to everybody's point of view that I ever met, and then decided how I should feel. But this so-called new Liberal group, Jesus, they never listen to your point of view."

- John Wayne

"You can’t take friends for granted."

- The Breakfast Club

"I would think somebody like Jane Fonda and her idiot husband would be terribly ashamed and saddened that they were a part of causing us to stop helping the South Vietnamese. Now look what’s happening. They’re getting killed by the millions. Murdered by the millions. How the hell can she and her husband sleep at night?"

- John Wayne

"Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody."

- Billie Jean King

"The transgender bathroom thing - it's just so obvious that people are scared of what they don't understand. It's like, 'I don't want to deal with the fact that some people might have been born in the wrong body.'"

- Nikki Glaser

"Historically, our culture has not made room for the nuances of humanity. People have not been kept safe: women, people of colour, queer people, transgender people."

- Indya Moore

"there’s nothing they can say to you that you don’t already know through their actions helped me a lot actually it has prevented me from reaching out and asking why they treated me that way it doesn’t matter you know? they don’t want to be with me they don’t want to talk to me it’s very clear from their actions"

"We don’t choose to be addicted; what we choose to do is deny our pain."

"There’s not a drug on earth that can make life meaningful."

"Some people aren't who they say they are, be cautious of the company you keep, a wolf in sheep's clothing."

- Unknown

"Mat life."

- Unknown