Top 21 Quotes About Self Destructive Behaviour
#1. There is a known correlation between denial of one's sexuality and a propensity to self-destructive behaviour.
Peter Tatchell
#2. Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?
Kristin Davis
#3. You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#4. I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.
Robert B. Laughlin
#5. Scores of high-powered men and women are addicted to substances or destructive addictive patterns of behaviour. As a matter of fact, it is easier to hide one's addiction while maintaining a high-powered position compared to the addicts and alcoholics we see sleeping on street corners.
Christopher Dines
#6. To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.
Stephen Covey
#7. Speak about the love of God and faces light up, but speak of God as a Judge, and our attitudes change.
Billy Graham
#8. The past has happened, and it can only happen the way it happened.
Chuck Klosterman
#9. Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.
Patricia Heaton
#10. Mrs. Carter raised her chin. "The essence of a lady comes from within," she said in a gentle but firm tone. "A lady can wear rags, but as long as she holds her head up and carries herself proudly, people will see her, not her clothing.
Debra Holland
#11. What, at Peace with the Father, and at War with the (His) Children! It cannot be.
John Flavel
#13. We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.
Erich Fromm
#14. Where to now? Only the previously unknowable and unspoken will bring us there.
Kazim Ali
#15. Those who object to human rights protection laws typically do so because they want to be above those laws.
Christina Engela
#16. The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every individual have a role to play in changing entrenched outlooks and ending destructive patterns of behaviour
Kofi Annan
#17. I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.
Tom Hollander
#18. Many people succeed when others do not believe in them. But rarely does a person succeed when he does not believe in himself.
Herb True
#19. It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.
Helen Garner
#20. The dark has teeth and it will bite,
It feasts begins on Sorry Night.
When cold and fear are intertwined,
They'll chew up your heart and feed on your mind.
Where have the souls gone? What do they see?
The gateway to Hell's eternity.
Simon Holt
#21. Our Sages refer to Prayer as "Service of the Heart". But the heart cannot work properly unless the brain functions to stimulate and control its operation. In the physiology of Prayer, too, the mind plays as vital a role as the heart.
Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits
