Anatomy Quote by Frances Moore Lappé

Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in…

— Tobias Wolff

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“A destructive thought process exists within all of us, and we are plagued to varying degrees by an internal dialogue that is harmful, restrictive,…

— Lisa Firestone

“I can identify with other people and situations, but I tend not to. I would rather recall things from my own life, and I…

— Bob Dylan

“Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and I trembled lest my very moral perceptions should become…

— Anne Brontë

“When my self is no longer the all-consuming preoccupation it once was, when I see it as one narrative thread among myriad others, when…

— Stephen Batchelor

“That’s why I called my last book Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, because that’s the greatest habit we have to break—thinking, feeling, and…

— Joe Dispenza

When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.

— Zeena Schreck

I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal…

— Bret Easton Ellis

The discovery that we can program our existence and author our own lives has radically altered my life - transforming my identity, aspirations, and…

— Bryan Johnson

“Emotions enthrall, but change, and as such have the ability to disrupt and destroy.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

“Your True Self is who you are, and always have been in God . . . The great surprise and irony is that "you,"…

— Richard Rohr