Shana

“We have been taught that freedom is the freedom to pursue our petty, trivial desires. Real freedom is freedom from our petty, trivial desires.”
― Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addiction

“A counsellor at the treatment centre where I got clean, herself a woman in recovery, surprised me when she said, ‘How clever of you to find drugs. Well done, you found a way to keep yourself alive.’ This made me feel quite tearful. I suppose because this woman, Jackie, didn’t judge me or tell me I was stupid or tubthumpingly declare that ‘drugs kill’. No, she told me that I had done well by finding something that made being me bearable… To be acknowledged as a person who was in pain and fighting to survive in my own muddled-up and misguided way made me feel optimistic and understood. It is an example of the compassion addicts need from one another in order to change.”
― Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

“You can never quench your spiritual craving through material means.”
― Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

“If we all feel that we are alone, how alone are we?”
― Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions