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
“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 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
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
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
“Wesley had called it self-destructive. Evan understood. It wasn't about flirting with death, like Mom. It was about wanting to live all… — Leah Raeder 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
We're all self-destructive when we're young. We all rebel. If we don't, there's something wrong. But when a Chicano kid's in a… — Jimmy Santiago Baca 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
“Where did my friend go? Was there a place they all gathered, the lost and self destructive? Was there a room they… — Brendan Cowell 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
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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
“No Blame: The most liberating and empowering day of my life was the day I freed myself from my own self-destructive nonsense.” — Steve Maraboli 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
“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
