Quotes About Self-preservation

The strongest man survives himself.

I recognized exactly where she was—that state where you're able to hold it together as long as absolutely no one talks to you or touches you with any amount of sympathy.

My ability to make up lies on the spot chills me as much as it saves me.

This is how power is eclipsed: in a moment of vivid realism, between the waning of one fantasy of governance and its replacement by the next; in an instant when the world springs free of its mooring of dreams and reveals itself to be girdled in the pathways of survival and self-preservation. The

At a certain point, it would seem, you have to stop caring, and stop trying to protect what someone else is set to destroy.

Mamas are always saying, be careful. Mine said it to me. Yours said it to you. Be careful out a mama's mouth don't mean nothing 'cept protect yourself better than I did.

To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.

I learned to make things not matter, to put a seal on my hopes and place them on a high shelf, out of reach. And by telling myself that there was nothing inside those hopes anyway, I avoided the wounds of deep disappointment.

Ja sam jedino sposobna zbrajati život, dok tako prepun ne postane nepodnošljiv, odve? snažan, i raspršujem se u krizama histerije, u milijune komadi?a, zbog prevelike koli?ine života... Prava je patnja živjeti u 'unutrašnjosti života'... netko bi me morao u?initi nesvjesnom. Ubiti me. U?initi me neosjetljivom, nemo?nom. Dijelovi mene morali bi umrijeti, ali ja sam sve dobro zaštitila od umiranja.

Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised the truth of a colleague's words: "The world is split between those who want to save the planet and those who want to save themselves.

Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant

Looking back, I was becoming extremely hard. You couldn't afford to have somebody care about you because you weren't really allowed to care about yourself. I didn't want people feeling sorry for me. I just wanted to survive. I

Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate.

if you stop "thrashing your liver" into an early state of exhaustion, you will add many years to your life.

if I've learned one thing in my decades on earth, it's this: Don't argue with your lizard brain; it knows you better than you know yourself.

When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.

Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.

The only trick was never giving more that you were willing to lose.

I didn't trot my pain out to show around. I kept it better hidden than anyone. I did.

The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.

So finally, I decided that the best response — the safest — was none at all.

Cuando no puedes salvarte a ti mismo o a tu corazón, ayuda ser capaz de salvar las apariencias.

So I narrowed my world, cutting put everyone who'd known me or tried to befriend me. It was the only thing I knew to do.

You would have thought I'd feel brittle too, being such a bitter, angry bitch. But I didn't. I felt nothing, really, just the sense that now the circle I'd always kept small was a little smaller. Maybe Chris could be saved that easily. But not me. Never me.