self-destructive

We each possess the capacity for self-development. We also possess the capacity for self-destruction. The path that we chose to take _ to pursue lightness or darkness _ is the story that we take to our graves.

A neon-pink 3 flickered and instantly disappeared again into the dark. The sight of it on my own device now made me sick. I held my finger down on the menu screen; each little app logo began to vibrate. I deleted the 3. I contemplated deleting everything. Cleaning it all away. The idea had a charm, a self-cancellation, many little suicides, a way to dispatch myself without actually going anywhere.

Paulette had never been flush with self-confidence. People took that as humility, but humility isn__ painful and crippling. She hadn__ yet learned that humble and self-destructive aren__ the same thing at all. They__e not even on the same team. - From "The Gardens of Ailana" handbook for healers & mystics

We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.I was a strong lad and survived; but the poison was in the wound, and the wound remained ever open

I am the greatest obstacle to my greatest dreams.

Souls are flowers, only God has the right to pluck them. But those who commit suicide: their souls are the rotten blossoms of devil's garden.

Direct lies, small lies, huge lies, and lies of omission_ these are all self-serving and sources of self-destruction.

No Blame: The most liberating and empowering day of my life was the day I freed myself from my own self-destructive nonsense.

He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a kind of penance. It was self-destructive, he could see that, but that was the way things were. People smoked, they jumped out of airplanes, they drank too much and got into their cars and drove without seat belts.

Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is sufficiently hard to shatter myths is ultimately self-destructive.

Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out.

When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my hand is wet.

Good wins in the end because evil is a self-destructive, cannibalistic force that Inevitably engorges upon itself.

More times than I__ willing to admit I am my own worst enemy, which suggests that more times than I__ willing to admit I should allow God to be my own best friend.

Try not to complicate your life by attaching yourself in a circle of people who would dare to influence you to engage in self-destructive decisions and actions.

It__ thinking that I had the solution that probably created the problem in the first place.