Quotes About Self-preservation

The human being first put values into things, in order to preserve itself—it created a meaning for things, a human's meaning! Therefore it calls itself 'human'—that is: the evaluator.

life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results thereof.

The hatred of egoism, whether it be one's own, as with the Christians, or another's, as with the Socialists, comes about first, as a value judgement under the predominant influence of revenge, and second, as a prudent means of self-preservation on the part of the suffering, by intensifying their feelings of reciprocity and solidarity.

The law, or the thoroughly realistic formalization of certain conditions for the self-preservation of a community, forbids certain actions directed against the community. However, it does not forbid the disposition that produces these actions, for it needs these action for other ends.

the right to self-preservation could become egotism, and the power of generation could become license

Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact.

It's easier to shut yourself off outside than reveal your inner thoughts.

I don't want to get punched in the head anymore. I spent a couple of thousand dollars on the nose and teeth and everything's been readjusted, so I don't want anybody hitting me.

As far as my career or my university or my hometown went, I was on the bus out of town at the right time because I knew to walk away before I was pushed out.

AVOID DUMB PEOPLE. DO NOT TRY TO EDUCATE THEM OR TRY TO PROVE HOW SUPERIOR YOU ARE TO THEM.

Note to self: don't die.

The walls of self-preservation that you build for today are the walls of self-imprisonment for tomorrow. Boundaries that you establish in your life as a protection for yourself today will feel like constraints tomorrow.

Because your self-preservation instinct keeps telling you, "Unless you have walls you are not safe," unconsciously you keep building them. Later, you struggle with them. This is an endless cycle. But creation is not unwilling to open to you the doors to the beyond. It is not creation's unwillingness that you are struggling with. You are struggling with the walls of resistance that you have built around yourself.

Robert Frost captured a deep truth when he wrote, "Something there is that doesn't love a wall." Because your self-preservation instinct keeps telling you, "Unless you have walls you are not safe," unconsciously you keep building them. Later, you struggle with them. This is an endless cycle.

The walls of self-preservation that you build for today are the walls of self-imprisonment for tomorrow.

An example of this is if he tells you "get in the car." You never go to a secondary location– ever.

if necessary, leave. The party may be spoiled, you might not be able to see the end of the movie, etc. so what? It's better than getting your head knocked in or being around to watch the stomping that is about to happen. somebody is going to get seriously hurt. That means hospitals and police—not fun, folks. oddly enough, when you are really tough, it's easier to walk away from this sort of thing.

Sanity is a valuable possesion; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.

If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.

It is always a mistake to curse back openly at those who are stronger than you unless there is a fence between.

But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the young well, but they wish them ill also: they would like to eat them up, and absorb their vitality, and remain immortal themselves. Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past - the past of others, loaded on their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.

She's not extravagant or greedy, she tells herself: all she ever wanted was to be protected by layer upon layer of kind, soft, insulating money, so that nobody and nothing could get close enough to harm her.

He would have died soon, but more painfully. Anyway, it was Urban Bloodshed Limitation. First rule: limit bloodshed by making sure that none of your own gets spilled.

She'd learned a lot of things from Zeb in his Urban Bloodshed Limitation classes: in Zeb's view, the first bloodshed to be limited should be your own.