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  • The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In the case of self-inflicted wounding, this pain acts as the body's own defense mechanism to stop one from proceeding in the effort at physical injury. If a person proceeds despite the pain, that means that he or she is motivated by something stronger than the pain, something that makes him or her capable of ignoring or enduring it.

    Pain   Mean   Self  
  • Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its unspeakable horrors. This collective suffering has brought upon a readiness in many human beings for the evolutionary leap that is spiritual awakening.

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  • It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.

  • Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.

  • Every moment away from you feels like time spent in a sort of cell. I can think of nothing, dream of nothing, but you. Unfortunately, I will have to remain in my self-inflicted prison a bit longer, since work will keep me from meeting you tonight. I can't seem to find a way to avoid this... however, I hope this gift will make up for my unforgivable behavior. I saw this and though of you, and St. George. You have slain the dragon. Until we meet again, I am your Lucien.

  • You're the only one that can put pressure on yourself... No one else can put pressure on you. It's self-inflicted. For me, I just want to go out and play football.

    Football   Self   Play  
  • The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.

    Men   Self   Facts  
    "Will Arnold Be Back After '06?" by Ed O'keefe, abcnews.go.com. April 23, 2006.
  • To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from a suspicion that it does no more than recycle patriotic pieties unsuited to a global marketplace, would be an act of appallingly self-inflicted collective memory loss.

    Simon Schama (2000). “A History of Britain: At the edge of the world? 3000 BC-AD 1603”, Miramax
  • Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.

    Golf   Self   Way  
  • The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance.

  • All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

  • I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am.

    Writing   Self   Who I Am  
  • Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.

    Self   Smirk   Crowns  
  • Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.

    Writing   Self   Black  
    "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
  • Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of plutocracy, oligarchy, and mounting theocracy that rule our state? How do we address the self-inflicted catastrophes that devastated our natural environment? So large is our malaise that no single writer can encompass it. We have no Emerson or Whitman among us. An institutionalized counterculture condemns individuality as archaic and depreciates intellectual values, even in the universities. (The Anatomy of Influence)

  • There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics...When this country is operating off a common ground, nobody can stop us. But when we're divided, then we end up having a whole lot of self-inflicted problems.

    Country   Self   Common  
  • The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.

    Suicide   Self   People  
    William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated
  • When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster.

  • Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind capable of believing that it, a part of the immense world, could absolute

  • It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

    Spiritual   Loss   Self  
    Sir Arthur Helps (1857). “Companions of My Solitude”, p.28
  • I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.

  • The heartbreak of runaway corruption, abuse of power and indefensible criminality by our government and media should, must inspire all good we-the-people Americans to wake the hell up from the embarrassing self-inflicted curse of apathy and start demanding Constitutional accountability from our elected employees.

    Heart   Self   Media  
    "Ted Nugent on GOP: 'I pray to God they finally rediscover their scrotum'". Interview with Jared Boyd, www.al.com. July 20, 2016.
  • Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon.

    Fall   Taken   Self  
    "David Cameron's EU speech - full text". www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2013.
  • There will be outrage and disgust and people will turn on me at the last, they will hate me, my reputation will forever be destroyed, my punishment earned, self-inflicted like this gunshot wound, and the world will finally know that I was the greatest feather man of them all.

    Hate   Men   Self  
  • Michael Jackson plays the wounded puppy very well. 'I must be the loneliest man in the world'. Well, you're not a man. And the loneliness is self inflicted, so sod off you pathetic puerile pimp. I wonder what color his willy is.

    Loneliness   Men   Self  
  • When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.

    Self   People   Giving  
    Neal A. Maxwell (1991). “Men and Women of Christ”, Bookcraft Pubs
  • Fresh wounds," said Angua. "But one of them did shoot one of the other in the leg by accident." "I think you'd better put in your report as -self inflicted- wounds while resisting arrest," said Vimes.

    Thinking   Self   Legs  
  • We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.

    Self   Worried   Gunshots  
  • But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write.

    Writing   Self   Long  
    William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.233
  • The most common self-inflicted put-down is 'I am not a pastor-I am just a layperson.' This is all part of a clever satanic scheme to neutralize apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers along with the entire army of disciples, already positioned in the marketplace.

    Teacher   Clever   Army  
    Ed Silvoso (2010). “Anointed for Business (Large Print 16pt)”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com
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