Quotes About Self-preservation

If someone caring for you became angry or dangerous, the conscious mind buried that information as too awful to acknowledge

He's gone, you're still here. You'll no longer enjoy the gleam of his eyes, of his words, but so what? Organize your defenses, preserve your wholeness, don't let yourself break like an ornament, you're not a knickknack, no woman is a knickknack.

I've never been in analysis. But it's rare that one saves oneself from a rickety landing at the top of a building by throwing oneself down the stairwell.

Most people, the minute they met you, were sizing you up for some competition for resources. It was as if everyone lived in fear of a shipwreck, where only so many people would fit on the lifeboat, and they were constantly trying to stake out their property and identify dispensable people—people they could get rid of.

The need to create a citadel in which to hide from the world is characteristic of people with a schizoid disposition

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.

Cuando no me hago daño, temo hacer daño.

Poisonous snake will naturally make relationship with the venomous reptiles only, but eventually either he will eat them or they will devour him.

The first step towards the wisdom is to keep always a safe distance from the woman & the next and the rest of the steps are to keep walking safely on the first one only.

Please, no one touch my heart. Don't touch it. Don't notice anything. No one has to know what my heart is feeling. I decided that I wouldn't turn back. That's why I threw everything away. So, don't you ever say, "I'm lonely.

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speach and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Getting old doesn't frighten me. But I've got to take care of myself.

I grew up in the ghetto, and the thing is when there were problems, I knew when to get away.

There is a glimpse of me that I'd like to keep private. And I believe that is necessary for my kind of sanity. I'd not like the world to know everything about me.

I do a good job of taking care of my body.

First mark of the self-preservative instinct of the great psychologist: he never seeks himself, he has no eyes for himself, no interest or curiosity in himself

Good Advice You've a head and a heart? Reveal only one of them, I say; If you reveal both at once, doubly they'll damn you, for both.

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.

And must I not conceal myself like one who has swallowed gold- lest my soul should be ripped up?

We must know how to preserve ourselves: the greatest test of independence.

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A living thing seeks above all to DISCHARGE its strength—life itself is WILL TO POWER; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent RESULTS thereof.

Los fisiólogos deberían pensárselo bien antes de afirmar que el instinto de autoconservación es el instinto cardinal de un ser orgánico. Algo vivo quiere, antes que nada, dar libre curso a su fuerza — la vida misma es voluntad de poder —: la autoconservación es tan sólo una de las consecuencias indirectas y más frecuentes de esto.