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.

— Kilroy J. Oldster

More times than I’m willing to admit I am my own worst enemy, which suggests that more times than I’m willing to admit I should allow God to be my own best friend.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

If you aren't destroying your enemies, it's because you have been conquered and assimilated, you do not even have an idea of who your enemies are. You have been brainwashed into believing you are your own enemy, and you are set against yourself. The enemy is laughing at you as you tear yourself to pieces. That is the most effective warfare an enemy can launch on his foes: confounding them.

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Souls are flowers, only God has the right to pluck them. But those who commit suicide: their souls are the rotten blossoms of devil's garden.

— Munia Khan

When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my hand is wet.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am the greatest obstacle to my greatest dreams.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

No Blame: The most liberating and empowering day of my life was the day I freed myself from my own self-destructive nonsense.

— Steve Maraboli

Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a kind of penance. It was self-destructive, he could see that, but that was the way things were. People smoked, they jumped out of airplanes, they drank too much and got into their cars and drove without seat belts.

— Kim Edwards

Direct lies, small lies, huge lies, and lies of omission… these are all self-serving and sources of self-destruction.

— Cathy Burnham Martin