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. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.
Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate. You're hurting yourself. And that's a healing. Actually, it's a real healing, forgiveness.
It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.
I find drug use disrespectful, self-destructive, and weak. I want no part of it.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.