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“Why would you pour so much energy into a hater’s destructive opinion who doesn’t even pour energy into their own self-development?”

Love Energy Opinion Self Help Self Improvement Destructive Self Care Self Development Hater Pour

Author:Richie Norton

“When we are “time traveling”, we may trip over problems from the past which distort our memory. If we are weary of dealing with lost causes or lame ducks in our history, we have to make up our mind and give up destructive thinking patterns. At that juncture, time has come to go back to the future. ( “A glimpse of the future" )”

Mind Past Time History Memory Destructive Weary Glimpse Give Up Lost Cause Trip Time Traveling Thinking Pattern Distort Deal With Lame Ducks At That Junture Go Back To The Future

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“She was wildfire; I was wind”

Destructive Complicity Couple Quotes Chemistry Quotes Destructive Love

Book:Beneath The Veil Of Time: A poetry collection

Source: Beneath The Veil Of Time: A poetry collection

“Among all human fears, the most destructive is our fear of each other.”

Love War Hate Fear Peace Justice Violence Racism Neighbor Destructive

Author:Anamikos

“At some point they show their true colors After the break up After the trial After the contract is signed and broken Their true colors stink These days I find it hard to get along with them I want to push them until the colors come out And sometimes I hate them so much, I push and see I do the same to the ones I like The ones I don’t care about I smile at real nice”

Hate Smile Destructive True Colors Rollins

Author:Henry Rollins

“When an awakened woman expresses her dark feminine energy it's not all love and light, it is a raw, unapologetic, and destructive force meant to shake and crumble every untruth there is.”

Love Light Dark Destructive Feminine Awakened Untruth Raw Unapologetic

Author:Lorin Krenn

“Anger is quick, easy, and destructive. Rage waits like a mine—deadly if stepped on, but powerful if directed. Movements don’t rise from silence. They rise from fire.”

Emotion Power Fire Revolution Anger Activism Rage Destructive Social Change Movements

Author:Lawrence Nault

“We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.”

Feels Humans War Hands Humanity Natural Loss Environment Resources Property Destroyed Destructive Natural Resources Uneasy Human Hands

Author:Nong ?uc Manh

“I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.”

Years Self Destructive Self Destructive

Author:Karen O

“For many years, I struggled with how I felt about myself. I hid and harbored very self-destructive eating issues, namely anorexia, which at its worst caused me to lose half of my hair and brought my weight down dramatically.”

Years Self Felt Loses Half Issues Worst Hair Eating Weight Destructive Anorexia Self Destructive

Author:Renee Olstead

“But we moderns are impatient and destructive.”

Destructive Impatient

Author:John Crowe Ransom

“In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.”

Persons School Faces Middle Worst Adults Bigger Damn Destructive Insecure Middle School Worst Times Slapping Bigger Person

Author:Nikki Reed

“One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.”

People Together Social Modern Losing Happenings Destructive Nightmare Collapse Modern Society

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?”

Self President Stupid Conscious Intelligent Clinton Selfish Destructive Paradox Compassionate Spirited Self Destructive

Book:All Too Human: A Political Education

Source: All Too Human: A Political Education

“People project a grey energy that is very destructive to weaken you, to drain you - just as the snake uses position to capture its victim.”

People Use Energy Position Projects Victim Destructive Capture Grey Snakes Drains

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.”

Ifs Way Development Reform Destructive Hindrance Destructive Power

Author:Ralph Steadman

“But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning.”

Self Winning Successful Patient Crowds Guilty Destructive Investors Be Patient Self Destructive

Author:Andrew Tobias

“It's very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves.”

Men World Ideas Science Tree Dangerous Innovation Invention Our Time Destructive Lightning New Ideas Hostile Other Worlds Ostentatious

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If a steaming hot potato fell in your hands you would get it off you as soon as you could. Do the same with negative destructive thoughts- just release them as fast as you can.”

Ifs Hands Negative Overcoming Hot Release Destructive Potatoes Overcoming Fear

Author:John Assaraf

“It is very often asserted that fear is destructive. Yet this is not entirely true; when fear is felt about things that truly threaten security, it is protective. It is very fortunate that humans have an almost unlimited capacity for learning fears; otherwise we would have been eliminated long ago.”

Humans Long Has Beens Felt Fear Security Capacity Fortunate Destructive Long Ago Unlimited Protective

Author:Smiley Blanton

“There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.”

Writing Process Destructive Writing Process

Author:Joy Williams

“Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority.”

“While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family life and the most basic demands of Christian morality.”

People Christian Poverty Morality Demand Caught Lifestyle Destructive Materialism Caught Up Family Life Christian Morality

Book:The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis

Source: The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis

“The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect of our own being.”

World Evil Destructive Neglect Suicidal Ruthless

Book:Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

Source: Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

“I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.”

States Law Spirit United Existence Principles United States Objects Letters Constitution Unions Destructive Inconsistent Nullification

Book:Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers

Source: Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers

“I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'”

Ifs Way Guy Loses Successful Failing Team One Way Destructive Pulling Rope

Author:Curt Schilling

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

Self Worst Tendencies Bored Destructive Self Destructive

Author:Zoe Kazan

“The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness.”

Way Common Creative Madness Common Sense Destructive

Author:Louis Kronenberger

“Not only our eternal salvation depends upon our willingness and capacity to forgive wrongs committed against us. Our joy and satisfaction in this life, and our true freedom, depend upon our doing so. When Christ bade us turn the other cheek, walk the second mile, give our cloak to him who takes our coat, was it to be chiefly out of consideration for the bully, the brute, the thief? Or was it to relieve the one aggrieved of the destructive burden that resentment and anger lay upon us?”

“I have a controversial opinion about evil, because I don't believe evil exists. I believe that actions are dark and destructive but I don't believe evil is a thing. I believe it's a by-product of man's fear and desperation.”

Men Believe Action Evil I Believe Dark Opinion Products Don't Believe Destructive Desperation Controversial

Author:Victor Salva

“Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail on water all around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.”

People Thinking World Mind Humans Persons Enough Water Justice Negative Ships Around The World Destructive Human Mind Sail Negative Thoughts

Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.”

Feelings Spiritual Moral Virtue Envy Destructive Phenomenon Permit Envious Indignation Envied Guise Vice And Virtue Art Of Loving Righteous Indignation Envy And Success Moral Indignation

Book:Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

“Consider that worrying excessively about another person, especially a loved one, is a destructive act. It causes you emotional distress which prevents you from being at your best and contributing at the levels you're capable of. Instead of worrying, focus on accepting what is out of your control, and actively changing all that you can.”

Persons Causes Levels Accepting Worry Focus Emotional Gratitude Capable Destructive Loved Ones Distress Contributing Accepting What Is

Author:Hal Elrod

“Whatever religious people may say about their love of God or the mandates of their religion, when their behavior toward others is violent and destructive, when it causes suffering among their neighbors, you can be sure the religion has been corrupted and reform is desperately needed.”

People May Has Beens Religion Suffering Causes Religious Needed Behavior Neighbor Violent Reform God Love Destructive Mandates

Author:Charles Kimball

“Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony”

Source: Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius

“However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always found to be found in private life. We must learn to see that every problem that concerns us as conservationists always leads straight to the question of how we live. The world is being destroyed, no doubt about it, by the greed of the rich and powerful. It is also being destroyed by popular demand.”

Source: Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays

“Only the destructive forces know death as lord. Only spiritual forces know life as the Lord. Know ye the Lord!”

Knows Spiritual Force Lord Destructive Heavenly

Author:Edgar Cayce

“It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]”

Want May Science Weapons Destruction Bombs Destructive Referring Hydrogen Hydrogen Bomb

Author:Winston Churchill

“When you do things in a selfish way, let alone a destructive way, then you are bound by that karma. Your state of mind will go down. You will find yourself becoming depressed, nervous, anxious and upset.”

Way Mind States Becoming Bounds Selfish Karma Nervous Upset Destructive Finding Yourself State Of Mind Anxious

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.”

Art Fool Harmony Destructive

Book:Complete writings: with variant readings

Source: Complete writings: with variant readings

“People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.”

People Thinking Feelings Destructive Hiding Always Thinking

Book:Crucial Conversations: A Novel

Source: Crucial Conversations: A Novel

“Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac . . . it fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.”

People Young Negative Reactions Destructive Rock N Roll Aphrodisiac

Author:Frank Sinatra

“How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?... Not only is he poisoning our air and water - he's poisoning our political system as well.”

People Men Wells Political Water Air Destructive Political Systems Referring Poisoning Air And Water

Author:Barbra Streisand

“Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.”

Wells Difficult Creative Involved Aspect Difficulty Destructive

Book:Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness

Source: Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness

“A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction... I destroy in a dangerous situation because I want to live and do not want to have any anxiety. In short, the impulse to destroy serves a primary biological will to live.”

Want Pleasure Situation Dangerous Danger Source Creatures Anxiety Destruction Originals Primaries Impulse Motive Destructive Living Creatures Will To Live Dangerous Situations

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.”

Humans Dignity Blind Obedience Destructive Mute Human Dignity Blind Obedience

Author:Anthony Eden

“It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer is, 'Nothing.”

People Thinking Asks Answers Ego Oneself Ask Me Destructive Unnecessary Think Of You

Author:Paul Bowles

“We have created islands, small islands of power, but we have not built a bridge between those islands, .. The center and the territories, regional and local authorities are still competing with each other, competing for power. Those who take advantage of disorder and arbitrary rule are watching their mutually destructive fight.”

Stills Fighting Authority Built Advantage Locals Bridges Islands Destructive Territory Disorder Competing Arbitrary

Author:Vladimir Putin

“The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise of judgement, sensibility, and skill. The romanticist cannot be satisfied with such a normal standard; for him art is essentially irrational - an experience beyond normality, sometimes destructive of normality, and at the very least evocative of that state of wonder which is the state of mind induced by the immediately inexplicable.”

“It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.”

Knows Looks Ability Female Connections Destructive Worth It

Author:Ally Sheedy

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