Destroying Quotes

568 Destroying quotes by 459 unique authors

Love transforms, Love heals. But sometimes it lays deadly traps and ends up destroying the person who decided to surrender himself completely. — Paulo Coelho
Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death which is, as… — Marcel Proust
For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with… — Napoleon Bonaparte
When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer… — Jean Vanier
I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense. — Mahatma Gandhi
Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially… — Alice Walker
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to… — David Hume
But people try love and because they are unconscious... their longing is good, but their love is full of jealousy, full of possessiveness, full of… — Rajneesh
Everywhere we turn, we see violence and hate and prejudice and anger and all of these negative emotions that are destroying humanity. And we have… — Arun Manilal Gandhi
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. — Abraham Lincoln
The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility… — Simone Weil
Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools;… — Margaret of Valois
We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the… — Charlie Munger
From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes… — Rajneesh
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be. — John Dryden
The most irrevocable of [natures] laws says that a species cannot occupy a niche that appropriates all resources--there has to be some sharing. Any species… — Janine Benyus
True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot… — Rabindranath Tagore
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening… — William J. H. Boetcker
Love creates an "us" without destroying the "me". — Leo Buscaglia
Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator… — Oprah Winfrey
Technology has always been destroying jobs, and it has always been creating jobs. — Erik Brynjolfsson
The pervasiveness of guns in our society is destroying America. — Alan Dershowitz
When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am… — Rajneesh
The problem of a rising population destroying more than four tons of soil for every human already alive needs to find its way into corporate… — Allan Savory
Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting… — Chuck Palahniuk

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