Quotes About Self-preservation

Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.

As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

A lot of us think we're invincible... but we have to start putting ourselves on the to-do list.

When people had the cholera it seemed that they remembered nothing but themselves.

You know, sometimes you can hurt yourself more by trying to keep yourself from being hurt!" Miriam called after her.

You know, sometimes you can hurt yourself more by trying to keep yourself from being hurt!

the drowning man who climbs on your shoulders to save himself is understandable—except when you see it happen in the drawing room.

La gente altera costruisce soltanto le mura esterne del castello, dietro alle quali cerca di nascondere i suoi dubbi e le sue paure.

SkromnosÃ…Â¥ sa tradi?ne považovala za cnosÃ…Â¥ a z dobrých dôvodov. Musíme si svoju skromnosÃ…Â¥ chrániÃ…Â¥, pretože ona nás zasa chráni pred nami samými.

But I will write in spite of everything, absolutely; it is my struggle for self-preservation.

I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.

Roose is a very cold, pragmatic guy, and he's a survivor. He makes choices based on that, and friendship goes out the window.

The selfie makes us accustomed to putting ourselves and those around us 'on pause' in order to document our lives. It is an extension of how we have learned to put our conversations 'on pause' when we send or receive a text, an image, an email, a call.

People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.

The one thing that I learned from politics is you have to know how to watch your own back - and in some instances, you gotta watch your front, too.

Never offer him or her friendship. You will be used.

anxiety is evidence of a battle between our strength as a self on one side and a danger which threatens to wipe out our existence as a self on the other.

The woman doesn't look up. It's as if she's deaf. Maybe she is. Maybe she's like the Cambodian women I've read about, the ones who witnessed so many atrocities that they have willed themselves blind. Maybe that's what you have to do sometimes to survive. You kill off part of yourself, your hearing or eyesight, your capacity for hope.

The main thing isn't knowing whether you're right or wrong. That really doesn't matter. The main thing is to keep people from bothering you.

To put your trust in men is to get yourself killed a little

Toute possibilité de lâcheté devient une magnifique espérance à qui s'y connaît. C'est mon avis. Il ne faut jamais se montrer difficile sur le moyen de se sauver de l'étripade, ni perdre son temps non plus à rechercher les raisons d'une persécution dont on est l'objet. Y échapper suffit au sage

Do not expect me to apologize for going what I had to, to survive. A lion doesn't feel guilty for eating a zebra.

she stopped herself from being hurt long, long ago by not letting herself love anybody or anything.

A wise bird does not lend even the smallest of its feathers to a hunter.