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I know what it is to want something that could destroy you. — Nenia Campbell

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

The more we explore, understand, and even come to appreciate our own self-destructive mental attitudes, the more control we gain over our minds. — Karuna Cayton

The reason that poor people wind up coping in ways that seem pointlessly self-destructive is that all the constructive stuff costs money. I — Linda Tirado

If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive. — Viggo Mortensen

Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you're sane. — Brandi Carlile

Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering. — Helen Clark MacInnes

She's self-destructive. He's crazy--crazy enough to save her from herself. — Suzanne Steele

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different. — Paulo Coelho

You hear that rape victims avoid sex afterwards. But it's actually just as common for some victims to become promiscuous in self-destructive ways. — Jon Krakauer

I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive. — Kirk Hammett

I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse. — Thom Gunn

Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive. — Marianne Williamson

The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive. — Patti Smith

Diets don't really work & can be destructive, but if you get healthy overall (mind, body, spirit) then your weight balances naturally. — Jay Woodman

It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself. — Leo Tolstoy

Doubt, not self-reflection, comes from a destructive energy, and when it rears its head, I talk to it like a lunatic. — Gwyneth Paltrow

A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play. — Chris O'Dowd

There is a self-destructive program running in the consciousness of humanity, and we must write a new program. — Bryant McGill

Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one! — John Keats

God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits. — Beth Moore

Your thought should be creative and not destructive; it should be full of hope and faith for a more excellent future. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes. — Anais Nin

I am here for readers to see parts of themselves during my dark days, but also for a better way of living in my triumphs and gained wisdom. — Theia Mey

We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corporate madness. — Bryant McGill

The war against terror is not really about terror. It's about a superpower's self-destructive impulse toward supremacy, stranglehold, global hemegony. — Arundhati Roy

You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things. — Penn Jillette

No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird 'cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was. — Dee Dee Ramone

Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal. — Brene Brown

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully. — Daniel Radcliffe

I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest. — George Michael

Europe is acting in a very self-destructive manner, but is doing so because it's trying to be loyal to the United States. — Michael Hudson

but, like an alcoholic or a fan of the Dave Matthews Band, he ultimately couldn't control his self-destructive addiction. — Nick Offerman

The problem with alienating, self-destructive behavior is people get it into their heads it's a cry for help. It wasn't. — Courtney Summers

Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy. — Nikola Tesla

I don't have anyone curbing my instincts, doing anything destructive to my self opinion. — Louise Post

It was time to bring out the world destructive weapons. It was now time to hit him where it would do the biggest damage, his pride. — Ottilie Weber

The paper standard is self-destructive. — Hans F. Sennholz

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics. — Sebastian Horsley

The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job. — Alice Walker

Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive. — Max Anders

Self-Evaluation is healthy and constructive. Denial and self-delusion is DESTRUCTIVE. — Michelle Cook-Hall

It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good. — Ariel Rechtshaid

Over Thinking can be extremely destructive, and may often be a sign of low confidence or low self-esteem. — Barbara Gain

I definitely have a real self-destructive streak. — Florence Welch

The artist who makes himself accessible is self-destructive. — Howard Barker

I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do. — Dan Harmon

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion. — Michael Crichton

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

A measure of narcissism is healthy. But out of balance, what was once appropriate self-confidence becomes grandiose, pathological, and destructive. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

Though there can be other causes, most self-destructive behavior is the result of the fact that we have two minds that don't communicate very well. — Richard O'Connor

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

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly. — Zoe Kazan

I was not self-destructive, though I almost destroyed myself. In the end, I turned away from stand-up with a tired swivel of my head. — Steve Martin

The atomic bomb was created with the destruction of men in mind — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive. — Jayson Blair

There is a known correlation between denial of one's sexuality and a propensity to self-destructive behaviour. — Peter Tatchell

I find drug use disrespectful, self-destructive, and weak. I want no part of it. — Davey Havok

The Bible's emphasis on right relationships is a challenge to our culture's destructive focus on the self — Guy Brandon

I can be very self-destructive, but quietly. — Sam Taylor-Wood

It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind? — Rachel Vincent

It's very hard to be good. It is self-destructive thinking to think that there is too much good. — Henry Blodget

All are at war with the one who wars against self. — E'yen A. Gardner

It's counterproductive and self-destructive to bear grudges with people that are negative. — Carl Froch

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hurricane that leaves nothing but destruction. — Katie McGarry

We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time. — David Lee Roth

Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars — Curtis LeMay

It's a bomb. Just like you. — Maggie Stiefvater

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness. — Richard Paul Evans

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

I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die. — Whitney Houston

The selfishness of humanity is rooted in the self-destructive nature of man through sin. Romans 6:23 — Felix Wantang

Her self lagged behind her anger, like a mother picking up after a destructive child. — Matthew De Abaitua

A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker ... better to burn out than to fade away. — Kurt Cobain

I don't want to point out her flaws, but if I see her going on a self-destructive path, isn't it up to me as her friend to stop her? — Simone Elkeles

No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots. — Jesse Jackson

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. — Millicent Fenwick

Self-destruction is an art; cursed are the exponents. — Anurag Shourie

There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then. — Axl Rose

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

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

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person? — David Sheff

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

Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy! — Bryant McGill

Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit. — Paul Carus

I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore. — Karen O

Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes. — Sky Ferreira

People in pain can be very self-destructive. And sometimes they pull in the people who are close to them, often without realizing. — Sara Barnard

I was more addicted to self destruction then to the drugs themselves ... something very romantic about it — Gerard Way

If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity. — Victoria Osteen

If these people harbored secrets that might destroy them, inviting strangers to stay in Roseland was self-destructive. — Dean Koontz