Quotes About Self-preservation

En el amor, veo una artimaña de mi instinto para no asesinar al otro[...]

Ci si innamora di persone che non si sopportano, di persone che rappresentano un pericolo insostenibile... Nell'amore, io vedo un trucco del mio istinto per non assassinare l'altro.

Très peu d'êtres humains sont réellement capables de suicide. Je suis comme la majorité, j'ai l'instinct de survie. Vous aussi.

I was taught you don't tell your secrets to strangers - certainly not secrets that expose error, weakness, failure. My generation, like its predecessors, was taught that since our achievements received little notice or credit from white America, we were not to discuss our faults, lapses, or uncertainties in public.

I'm a private person. And I have a certain way in which I protect myself. I don't openly wear my feelings.

I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.

When you own a car, you want to keep it looking good, maybe even give it a wash once a week. When you own a house, you try to keep it maintained and don't let the rot set in. When we own something, we look after it. We need to make the same choices with our bodies.

For a while, I didn't want to leave the house. Eventually, I just got sick of being indoors. Now I take steps not to be noticed when I don't want to be. For instance, I live near Westfield shopping centre, so I won't go there at the weekend.

I have a hands-off policy when it comes to my larynx.

I don't want to portray myself as a daredevil. I'm not at all.

These people that are in consuming jobs - you forget to do one thing. And that's to take care of yourself.

I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.

I do not like getting hit. I can take a hit, but I don't want to damage my brain if I don't have to.

It's no good playing through pain if you're damaging yourself.

I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.

Don't let people take advantage of you because they will.

I better know how to take care of myself.

I have to take care of myself. It's about self-preservation.

You should know how to take care of yourself. That's one of the things that I got from my mother most - she always said that if you don't take care of yourself, no one will.

You're not always happy with things that go on in life on a daily basis. There's nothing I can do. You've got to deal with it and still take care of myself.

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

People have always told me I look young for my age... and I think it's because I've always taken care of myself.

When I look back at football, I've always said to myself, 'I'd rather leave the game and have something in my tank rather than have left all of me out on the field.'

If other people don't meet your needs, you have to be willing to walk out, since in the end that may well be the only one way to protect your interests.