Instinct Quote by Emily Barr

“We are highly susceptible to self destruction when we aren’t doing what we really want with our lives.”

— James Dillehay

“I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less an…

— Stephen Fry

“A destructive habit to have is believing that you have to be motivated to act.”

— Stephen Guise

“...sometimes you have to enact arbitrary rules, strange and perhaps irrational guidelines to force yourself out of a way of life so habitual it…

— Leon Logothetis

“Once you understand yourself, you can stop fighting your natural tendencies and plan for them instead.”

— Anne Bogel

“All of our actions can signify self-love or self-sabotage”

— Sharon Salzberg

“That you could loathe yourself for acting under duress and still crave the very things you'd done.”

— Kit Rocha

“If you need something desperately and find it, this is not an accident; your own craving and compulsion leads you to it.”

— Herman Hesse

“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

“it’s your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.”

— Matthew Quick

“Trying to destroy yourself gives a pretty clear message and it's not one I think you'd like. Sounds a bit like, “I'm too self-centered…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“I start each day promising myself I’ll do better, I tell myself I can stop the destructive eating pattern. But something inside of me…

— K.L. Slater