Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment. Take off your clothes. Forget yourself. Make love. Self-destruction is the only way to peace.
— Yayoi Kusama
Proven Self Destructive quotations
I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive.
Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing...forgiveness.
Your troubles may point you to death and destruction, but God's Word points you to life.
Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.
Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics;
it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride.
Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.
Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics;
it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars
The goal of the martial arts is not for the destruction of an opponent, but rather for self-growth and self-perfection. The practice of a martial art should be a practice of love - for the preservation of life, for the preservation of body, and for the preservation of family and friends.
My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness.
Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings
Political and social justice requires, not the disintegration of a country and destruction or humiliation of a class which shows initiative, intelligence and drive, but equality of opportunity for all, genuine freedom for self-fulfilment, in which all men irrespective of caste or creed may share.
That which offends you only weakens you.
Being offended creates the same destructive energy that offended you in the first place- so transcend your ego and stay in peace.
I thought if we made an album that tried to change the world, or give it hope, it would really happen. But all people found was death and destruction and misery and self-hate. I learned that the world doesn't want to be saved, and it will f**king punch you in the face if you try.
I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.
Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down.
It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.
Most relativists believe that relativism is absolutely true and that everyone should be a relativist. Therin lies the self-destructive nature of relativism. The relativist stands on the pinnacle of an absolute truth and wants to relativize everything else.
I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are face-to-face with our worst times. The demon is us!
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.
It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they constitute or control, will go to destruction. Consequently, when a state resolves that religious instruction shall be banished from the schools and other literary institutions, it virtually resolves on self-destruction.
I find drug use disrespectful, self destructive and weak.
I want no part of it. I believe in complete respect for myself and others.
The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
When you look at the homosexual agenda, I cannot support something that I believe brings nothing but self-destruction, not only physically but of their soul.
Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.
You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics between the two boundaries? If there is no objective moral law, relativism will take hold, and relativism ultimately will lead to self-destruction.
One's god dictates the kind of law one implements and also controls the application and development of that law over time. Given enough time, all non-Christian systems of law self-destruct in a fit of tyranny.
The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation.
The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.
Mr. President, passage of this bill will visit the heel of oppression on all the people, vitiate their constitutional shield against tyranny, and materially hasten the destruction of the best design for self-government yet devised by the minds of men. Its passage will mark one of the darkest days in history
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.
Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction.
What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.
In order to understand, I destroyed myself.
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.
When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.