{"quotes":[{"text":"The emphasis and the reason for a pure humility is to result in love for others; not always necessarily the belittlement of self. When there is pride and self-righteousness and being pretentiously too far above, generally, one has a difficult time reaching the compassionate side of love for others, the side that understands (or at least attempts to understand): 'I am aware that I am not so far from falling in the same way.' Humility seeks to understand, and sometimes even relate; and in result, the love lovingly, properly, effectively wills the removal of the destructive sins of another as from oneself.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["caring","caring-for-others","compassion","constructive-criticism","discernment","humility","hypocrisy","judgmental","love","pride","purity","self-destruction","self-righteousness","sin"],"id":5566,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Idealistic notions that guide a younger person frequently prove unsustainable. Concluding any stage of life demands that a person rebuilds oneself after living destroys our ideological beliefs.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["idealism","idealistic","identity","self-destruction","self-determination","self-determination","self-development","self-discovery","self-improvement","stages-in-life","stages-of-growth","stages-of-life"],"id":17708,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Freeways flickering; cell phones chiming a tuneWe're riding to Utopia; road map says we'll be arriving soonCaptains of the old order clinging to the reinsAssuring us these aches inside are only growing painsBut it's a long road out of Eden(...)Behold the bitten apple, the power of the toolsBut all the knowledge in the world is of no use to foolsAnd it's a long road out of Eden.","author":"Eagles","tags":["civilization","eden","materialism","self-destruction","utopia"],"id":18467,"author_id":"Eagles"},{"text":"Most of us respond with panic when we get what we want. The moment of victory is often the moment of greatest peril. We let success get to our head and start acting in over-confident ways. This is the beginning of self-destruction.","author":"Mohadesa Najumi","tags":["anxiety","consciousness","enlightenment","happiness","inspirational","life","motivational","sabotage","self-destruction","spirituality","success","worry"],"id":26872,"author_id":"Mohadesa+Najumi"},{"text":"This world made by humans for themselves is most unfriendly towards humans. What irony.","author":"Pooja Perumal","tags":["humans","ironic","self-destruction","world"],"id":29433,"author_id":"Pooja+Perumal"},{"text":"The sky was so blue I couldn’t look at it because it made me sad, swelling tears in my eyes and they dripped quietly on the floor as I got on with my day. I tried to keep my focus, ticked off the to-do list, did my chores. Packed orders, wrote emails, paid bills and rewrote stories,but the panic kept growing, exploding in my chest. Tears falling on the desktick tick tickme not making a soundand some days I just don't know what to do. Where to go or who to see and I try to be gentle, soft and kind,but anxiety eats you up and I just want to be fine.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["anxiety","be-okay","crying","hopeless","hurt","mental-health","okay","panic","panic-attack","panic-attacks","recovery","sad","sadness","self-destruction","self-harm","sky","tears"],"id":29591,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["life-story","personal-growth","self-destruction","self-destructive","self-determination","self-determination","self-development","self-development","story-of-your-life"],"id":33168,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Darkness falls upon Humanityand faces become terriblethingsthat wanted more than therewas.All our days are marked withunexpectedaffronts - somedisastrous, othersless sobut the process iswearing andcontinuous.Attrition rules.Most givewayleavingempty spaceswhere people shouldbe.And nowas we ready to self-destructthere is very little left tokillwhich makes the tragedyless and moremuch muchmore.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["alone","bukowski","darkness","death","destruction","disaster","emptiness","empty-spaces","humanity","kill","loneliness","lonely","poem","poetry","self","self-destruction","tragedy","tragic"],"id":49231,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"We would survive even ourselves, as long as we were together.","author":"Hannah Lillith Assadi","tags":["hannah-lillith-assadi","self-destruction","sonora","survival","together"],"id":52621,"author_id":"Hannah+Lillith+Assadi"},{"text":"Revenge can only be found on the road to self-destruction.","author":"Wayne Gerard Trotman","tags":["getting-even","revenge","revengeful","self-destruction","vengeance","vengefulness"],"id":53105,"author_id":"Wayne+Gerard+Trotman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":83,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}