Quotes About Self-preservation

you know that a boy who likes boys is a dead boy, unless he keeps his mouth shut, which is what you didn't do

Never leave a guy alive who'd like to see you dead.

I needed to protect her from this - and from herself.

Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.

While I threw myself into any social situation, could put on any mask—punk, preppy, artist—I also put masks on everyone I met, instantly judging them. I inhabited my masks, adopted the personas. Perhaps it was self-preservation, and stemmed from my itinerant childhood, which had forced me to form friendships quickly, potential allies or foes judged in an instant.

But when I see a black widow, I step on it; I don't plead with it to be a good little spider and please stop poisoning people.

I had taken a partner once before-but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, 1803–1882

Once envy reveals itself for what it is, the only solution is often to flee the presence of the enviers, leaving them to stew in a hell of their own creation.

Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

Má»™t ??a tr? không bao gi? bi?t b?o v? mình s? tr? thành ng??i Ä'àn ông không bi?t b?o v? b?t c? th? gì

Ivy would die for you, Rachel. Kisten won't. Put your emotions where they will keep you alive.

had my splat gun, but I wasn't a brave person. I ran away from big-bad-uglies. It increased my life span dramatically.

There comes a time, when you have to realize that you're not responsible for the whole world.

Why would I assume that the guy wanted to hurt me when nobody's ever tried to hurt me before?

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation. It is the invitation to water the seed of courage found deep within your heart. Kurt Bruner's and Jim Ware's book from 2006, Finding God in the Lord of the Rings.

I think it is because I have a habit, when I am bored or disgusted with people of stepping suddenly into my own world and shutting the door. People resent this -- I suppose it is only natural to resent a door being shut in your face. They call it slyness when it is only self-defense.

One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma is there for no other purpose than inquiring after the Absolute Truth.

The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.

Tobožnja stidljivost i kreposnost oblici su sebi?nosti, tek obi?ni postupci samozaštite koji su potrebni upravo zbog žestine naših vlastitih želja.

We're all risk averse creatures, aren't we? Like turtles, hiding in our little shells, trying to protect ourselves - never quite realising that we're protecting ourselves from the good stuff as well as the bad.

I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right out of a party.

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.

Take good care of yourself. Your life can be gone in a split second.