Sentence examples for harm ourselves from inspiring English sources

To destroy it, he suggests, is to harm ourselves, in other words.

We don't want to harm ourselves; we don't want suffering; we don't want hardship; we don't accept difficulty and disappointment.

He said: "We have to make sure we don't harm ourselves in areas where the EU was particularly good for us.

But since most people like me are more likely to harm ourselves than to turn into mass-murdering monsters, our leaders should do more to keep us safe from ourselves.

The practice of Buddhism is a means to see deeply into the nature of existence and the delusions that snare us and cause us to harm ourselves and others.

When we speculate about God, man and world in the correct way, we express our noblest moral sentiments; without such reflection we despair and eventually harm ourselves and others.

It was a bit as though we were getting a jump on our enemies by harming ourselves first".

But what if we believed our own hype about these rituals and became cocksure, perhaps even harming ourselves?

Her central premise in Smoke Gets In Your Eyes is that we are sanitising death, and distancing ourselves from the whole mourning experience, so much in today's society that we are actually harming ourselves, mentally and spiritually.

The Nightmare, Sargent argues, is actually a scientific illustration of sleep paralysis, when the normal paralysis that keeps us from harming ourselves in our sleep fails to disengage as we awake: "Regaining consciousness, the person finds they cannot move and may feel a crushing sensation in their chest".

If, as the book suggests, 90% of us can take drugs safely without harming ourselves or others, and criminalising the 10% who can't only turns them into desperate thieves and prostitutes, then the war on drugs is not merely unwinnable, but inherently counterproductive.