Top 20 Catherine Gray Quotes (2024 Update)

Catherine Gray Quote: “When people become addicted to alcohol, it’s seen as their failure. They didn’t pass the ‘moderate use of an addictive drug’ challenge. They failed at drinking! Society expects us to regularly use an addictive drug, without becoming addicted to it. Alcohol is the only drug where, the second you stop taking it, you’re seen as being too weak to handle it. It’s truly bizarre.”

1. “When people become addicted to alcohol, it’s seen as their failure. They didn’t pass the ‘moderate use of an addictive drug’ challenge. They failed at drinking! Society expects us to regularly use an addictive drug, without becoming addicted to it. Alcohol is the only drug where, the second you stop taking it, you’re seen as being too weak to handle it. It’s truly bizarre.”

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Catherine Gray Quote: “Did you know that simply walking through a door-frame can break a repetitive thought-loop? It literally causes a memory lapse, which is why we leave the living room and go into the kitchen for something, and then stand in the kitchen cluelessly scratching our heads. In a fascinating study aptly called ‘Walking through doorways causes forgetting’, professors at Notre Dame University discovered that this worked in both virtual and real-world settings.”

2. “Did you know that simply walking through a door-frame can break a repetitive thought-loop? It literally causes a memory lapse, which is why we leave the living room and go into the kitchen for something, and then stand in the kitchen cluelessly scratching our heads. In a fascinating study aptly called ‘Walking through doorways causes forgetting’, professors at Notre Dame University discovered that this worked in both virtual and real-world settings.”

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Catherine Gray Quote: “New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.’ – LAO TZU.”

3. “New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.’ – LAO TZU.”

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Catherine Gray Quote: “Drinking steals happiness from tomorrow’ – UNKNOWN.”

4. “Drinking steals happiness from tomorrow’ – UNKNOWN.”

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Catherine Gray Quote: “The limbic system is responsible for anxiety itself, but the pre-frontal cortex provides the worry scripts, formulating potential problems. When our mind races and catastrophizes, that’s the pre-frontal cortex.”

5. “The limbic system is responsible for anxiety itself, but the pre-frontal cortex provides the worry scripts, formulating potential problems. When our mind races and catastrophizes, that’s the pre-frontal cortex.”

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Catherine Gray Quote: “My top sober reads are: Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety by Sacha Z Scoblic, Blackout by Sarah Hepola, This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol by Annie Grace, Dry by Augusten Burroughs and Kick the Drink... Easily by Jason Vale.”

6. “My top sober reads are: Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety by Sacha Z Scoblic, Blackout by Sarah Hepola, This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol by Annie Grace, Dry by Augusten Burroughs and Kick the Drink... Easily by Jason Vale.”

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Catherine Gray Quote: “When you no longer need approval from others like the air you breathe, the possibilities in life are endless. What an interesting little prison we build from the invisible bricks of other people’s opinions.’ – JACOB NORDBY.”

7. “When you no longer need approval from others like the air you breathe, the possibilities in life are endless. What an interesting little prison we build from the invisible bricks of other people’s opinions.’ – JACOB NORDBY.”

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Catherine Gray Quote: “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way and the only way, it does not exist.’ – NIETZSCHE.”

8. “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way and the only way, it does not exist.’ – NIETZSCHE.”

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Catherine Gray Quote: “I cannot imagine my friends – who grew up to be lawyers, and journalists, and lawyers, and lawyers – saying things like, “But what if you just did heroin on the weekends?” Or, “You really just need better product.”

9. “I cannot imagine my friends – who grew up to be lawyers, and journalists, and lawyers, and lawyers – saying things like, “But what if you just did heroin on the weekends?” Or, “You really just need better product.”

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Catherine Gray Quote: “Nothing good ever happens in a blackout. I’ve never woken up and been like, “What is this Pilates mat doing out?”‘ –AMY SCHUMER.”

10. “Nothing good ever happens in a blackout. I’ve never woken up and been like, “What is this Pilates mat doing out?”‘ –AMY SCHUMER.”

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Catherine Gray Quote: “Blackouts were commonplace right from the get-go. I thought everyone experienced lost hours of nights out – turns out they don’t.”

11. “Blackouts were commonplace right from the get-go. I thought everyone experienced lost hours of nights out – turns out they don’t.”

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Catherine Gray Quote: “I’m free from all of that “where’s the next drink coming from?” stress. At one point I mislay my water. So what? If that had been wine, I would have been crushed, and annoyed for the next hour. I probably would have regaled my friend with how miffed I was, for an hour too.”

12. “I’m free from all of that “where’s the next drink coming from?” stress. At one point I mislay my water. So what? If that had been wine, I would have been crushed, and annoyed for the next hour. I probably would have regaled my friend with how miffed I was, for an hour too.”

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Catherine Gray Quote: “I didn’t have a drinking problem as such. I was great at drinking! It was the stopping. I had a stopping problem.”

13. “I didn’t have a drinking problem as such. I was great at drinking! It was the stopping. I had a stopping problem.”

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Catherine Gray Quote: “The act of making a decision feels scary, since you may fail, but once you make a decision and set a definitive goal, the brain likes it more.”

14. “The act of making a decision feels scary, since you may fail, but once you make a decision and set a definitive goal, the brain likes it more.”

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Catherine Gray Quote: “Something I wish more people would realize, is that addiction is not the brain being irrational,’ says Korb. ‘It’s the brain doing its job. When you have anxiety, your brain says “alcohol is the solution to that”, because it has worked in the past. With many years of repetition, that sticks, so that the brain then automatically suggests it. Your brain is merely trying to solve your problem.”

15. “Something I wish more people would realize, is that addiction is not the brain being irrational,’ says Korb. ‘It’s the brain doing its job. When you have anxiety, your brain says “alcohol is the solution to that”, because it has worked in the past. With many years of repetition, that sticks, so that the brain then automatically suggests it. Your brain is merely trying to solve your problem.”

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Catherine Gray Quote: “Sitting on the train home, I realize I don’t feel like I need another week’s holiday, to get over the holiday. I feel refreshed and ready to go back to work.”

16. “Sitting on the train home, I realize I don’t feel like I need another week’s holiday, to get over the holiday. I feel refreshed and ready to go back to work.”

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Catherine Gray Quote: “I learn that we become our thoughts, which is why it’s so important to believe in a friendly, rather than a hostile universe.”

17. “I learn that we become our thoughts, which is why it’s so important to believe in a friendly, rather than a hostile universe.”

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Catherine Gray Quote: “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.’ – ROALD DAHL.”

18. “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.’ – ROALD DAHL.”

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Catherine Gray Quote: “Crushing hangovers turn even the simplest tasks – taking a cheque to the bank or buying food for dinner – into arduous nightmares.”

19. “Crushing hangovers turn even the simplest tasks – taking a cheque to the bank or buying food for dinner – into arduous nightmares.”

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Catherine Gray Quote: “I’ve now learned that when you share the darkest parts of your life, and find that thousands of people say ‘Me too’, it transmutes those black memories into spun gold. Sharing is like alchemy.”

20. “I’ve now learned that when you share the darkest parts of your life, and find that thousands of people say ‘Me too’, it transmutes those black memories into spun gold. Sharing is like alchemy.”

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Catherine Gray Quote: “For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.’ – CYNTHIA OCCELLI.”

21. “For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.’ – CYNTHIA OCCELLI.”

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Catherine Gray Quote: “A team of British scientists controversially announced in 2009 that alcohol is more dangerous than crack or heroin, and almost three times as deadly as cocaine or tobacco.”

22. “A team of British scientists controversially announced in 2009 that alcohol is more dangerous than crack or heroin, and almost three times as deadly as cocaine or tobacco.”

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Catherine Gray Quote: “He gave me so many anti-anxiety techniques. Reciting the alphabet backwards if I’m walking to a boozy party and feel my heart start to jackhammer. Tapping along to a song, which does something fancy in the brain. Or holding somebody’s hand. I still use these tools to this day.”

23. “He gave me so many anti-anxiety techniques. Reciting the alphabet backwards if I’m walking to a boozy party and feel my heart start to jackhammer. Tapping along to a song, which does something fancy in the brain. Or holding somebody’s hand. I still use these tools to this day.”

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Catherine Gray Quote: “We’re living both in the shadow of Baby Boomer expectations, and free from the pressures they experienced.”

24. “We’re living both in the shadow of Baby Boomer expectations, and free from the pressures they experienced.”

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