Quotes About Self-preservation

Cognitive mapping and processing are aimed at self-preservation through the reduction of helplessness, terror, and pervasive anxiety. They are introduced and sustained by our first two model components, ineffective social environment and unresolved traumatic formative events, and become established in the patterned responses.

Todos necesitamos negar lo que nos resulta demasiado doloroso o amenazador para aceptarlo. La negación es un medio natural de autoprotección, que obra en forma automática y espontánea.

Look out for number one and try not to step in number two.

Nansen had moreover introduced a startling new concept into Polar exploration. He had deliberately cut off his lines of retreat. His route was from the desolate east coast to the inhabited west. This was not bravado, but calculated exploitation of the instinct of self-preservation. It drove him on; there was no incentive to look back.

You know the opinion I entertain of mankind and how much it is my desire to preserve myself free from particular attachments and to keep my happiness independent of the caprice of others. You s[hould] not have taken advantage of my sensibility to ste[al] into my affections without my consent.

She knew better than to lose her head over a man. That was what was so humiliating: she knew better. Three broken engagements had taught her that a woman needed to keep her wits about her when dealing with the male species, or she could get seriously hurt.

Satan attempts to twist the meaning and therefore the application of God's Word in the hope that we will misuse his promises for self-preservation

I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.

...there can be no justification for a society in which a man is expected to manufacture the weapons for his own murderers.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving.

Ego will always conduct itself to make sure that it does not appear bad.

I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.

My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.

I had all my own teeth and I wanted to keep it that way.

The genius of Alba de Céspedes in this book is in shattering the illusion that writing is a place of refuge, and replacing it with the certainty that it is a place that always both pollutes and sabotages us." As Valeria discovers: toward the end of the novel, she tells her daughter, "Save yourself, you who can do it.

We do not like those who are completely available, who make themselves over to us entirely. They crowd us out. They make us feel uneasy.

There are no creatures that walk the earth, not even those animals we have labelled cowards, which will not show courage when required to defend themselves.

Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us.

The only thing for it is to use men for sex and never let any of them get so close they could hurt you.

Europe today has little desire to reproduce itself, fight for itself or even take its own side in an argument.

We don't care where the ball lands, as long as it doesn't land on us.

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

Had I forgotten how to cry? Was that possible? In order to survive, I had long since buried my emotions.