Destructive Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We exhort the compromisers to open their hearts to truth, to free themselves of their wretched and blind circumspection, of their intellectual arrogance, and…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Every single choice we make is either going to enhance the spirit or drain it. Every day, we're either giving ourselves power or taking…

— Caroline Myss

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.

— Pearl S. Buck

Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.

— Erich Fromm

When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.

— Anonymous

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

— Honore de Balzac

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

— Alison Bechdel

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

— George Eliot

You can either destroy your spirit or you can accept and love yourself just the way you are.

— Camryn Manheim

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