It becomes increasingly clear that we won’t be free of self-destructive patterns unless we develop a compassionate understanding of what they are. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's… — Sky Ferreira Copy Share Image
We can all be self-destructive. I make terrible choices all the time. It's uncomfortable to admit that you did a thing that… — Clare-Hope Ashitey Copy Share Image
“It said something about the ability of the free marketplace to mold people’s behavior into a socially acceptable pattern. For this was… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
These new metal bands are going out, getting drunk and going to strip clubs, and they'll be doing the same in thirty… — Moby Copy Share Image
The most self-destructive thought that any person can have is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his… — Roger Dawson Copy Share Image
I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the… — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
“When we do those things, we’re actually filling a void in our lives with debt. It’s a slow but sure self-destructive process,… — Celso Cukierkorn Copy Share Image
People continually ask me, "Why does the media do what it does? Why are they so obviously self-destructive? Why are they so… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective… — D. Patrick Miller Copy Share Image
Love of learning will never let you down. You can have a quest for money, you can have a quest for power,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I do think what the Tea Party also had was Obamacare and the unpopularity of that, at least at the time. And… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Most relativists believe that relativism is absolutely true and that everyone should be a relativist. Therin lies the self-destructive nature of relativism.… — Norman Geisler Copy Share Image
In the past, destruction of your neighbour might have been considered a victory, but today we are all interdependent. We live in… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I was always drawn to the self-destructive kind of way. I thought there was something beautiful about it; I don't know why. — Tove Lo Copy Share Image
It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle. — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one! — John Keats Copy Share Image
I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think… — Shannyn Sossamon Copy Share Image
I was not self-destructive, though I almost destroyed myself. In the end, I turned away from stand-up with a tired swivel of… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Doubt and suspicion can be very self destructive, inflicting unnecessary pain upon oneslef and others too. It is YOU who can change… — Mufti Ismail Menk Copy Share Image
I only write about stuff that’s happened to me.. stuff I can’t get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive. — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
“Think again, Electra. Don't say anymore. Don't you see what you're doing? You make your own pain. Why keep wounding yourself? With… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“I don't do romance, in the same way I don't do heroin Russian roulette, or nude alligator wrestling. I consider all of… — D.D. Barant Copy Share Image
“The plan wasn't perfect, but it was the most self-destructive thing I could think of, and I so badly needed to self-destruct.” — Michelle Hodkin The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer Copy Share Image
“I was in that dark, self-destructive place. I was up one minute, down the next. Soaring and crashing and crashing and soaring;… — Janice Dickinson Copy Share Image
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
The movie industry has ignored the success of films that look favorably on faith with the same sort of self-destructive stubbornness that… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
Imagine putting all the emotion and passion of hurt behind something positive rather than self destructive. Don't take the easy way out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A destructive thought process exists within all of us, and we are plagued to varying degrees by an internal dialogue that is… — Lisa Firestone Copy Share Image
All the forms of double taxation in the current system are punitive and self-destructive because they are literally destroying people's incentive to… — Daniel J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“We are all brave men, but our bravery means nothing in the absence of our common sense…it becomes self destructive.” –Lawrence Ottoise.” — Ray Anyasi Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think…Throughout the Mahabharata ... Krishna goads human beings into all… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
