Quotes About Self-preservation

If I've got to use my head, I might as well wear the mask.

When things don't go right, people are always trying to protect themselves.

There is nothing about me that I wouldn't want anyone to know, but there is a part of me that I do want to keep private and personal just because that is what's going to keep me sane in the long run - making sure people don't know my every move.

I had this thing about not giving too much of myself away, so I thought, if I sang lyrics, that's giving too much away. You know, I really didn't want to give myself away.

There's a lot of coaches who are just going to try to save themselves before saving you.

If you can roll at every angle, it becomes second nature to protect yourself when you fall.

I've always been really interested in secrets - how people find ways of doing things without telling anyone else in order to keep themselves feeling safe in the world.

African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.

I'm a paranoid person. I really am.

It's very important in any relationship that one partner doesn't lose themselves in the other, and that's very easy if you're involved with a celebrity.

It's a cold world out there, and this world will pass you by if you give another man anything over yourself.

Whatever we think of as "self" we will protect and maintain. If it's a conceptual self, and likely it is, then we end up with mind protecting mind.

Remember, mind has no interest in what's true—its job is to keep you alive while maintaining an identifiable sense of self. To do this, it not only creates and identifies with physical and mental-emotional activities, it also builds on past experience and any previously established conceptual identity. You're still alive and you're still you, so mind will naturally protect and promote all the beliefs behind the activities that keep you that way.

The original function of mind is to do a job, the essence of which is to keep you alive and successfully being you.

Da deres energi på denne måde ikke frit kan strømme udad, føler de sig glædes- og kraftesløse, og oplever som følge heraf verden som overvældende. Især i udåndingens øjeblik, som ellers ville passe til ubeskyttet given-slip, koncentrerer de sig krampagtigt om at beskytte sig selv.

Our oversized brains evolved, in large part, to detect and resist manipulation by those who want to get ahead at our expense.

Jimmy improvvisamente sembrò rovente dentro di me, e bruciava via tutto fin su nel mio petto e in gola e io resistetti finché potei, non più per lui ma per me, perché pensavo che se fossi rimasta in silenzio, lasciando che continuasse soltanto a respirare, che continuasse a spingere il suo fuoco dentro di me, Jimmy Freeze sarebbe stato in grado di bruciarmi annullandomi

I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Self-preservation is the first responsibility.

We as a country, our lust for entertainment has sort of superseded our sense of self-preservation.

I do watch sports. How could I not? Just for self-preservation.

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.

You can't be faulted for being selfish if you're going to get better because of it.