Quotes About Self-preservation

I have spent my whole life trying to preserve a certain idea of myself, and that is all. You have to cling to a set of values that do not depreciate with time. Everything else is the fashion of the moment, fleeting, mutable. In a word, nonsense.

Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.

I didn't react well toward paparazzi. I just was really protective of myself and constantly hiding myself.

I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.

If I like a person, I don't have any mask/filter. I will open up a lot. I had hurt myself in the past because a couple of persons took advantage of me. I realised that they are not genuine people. Since then, I take time to open myself up for new people.

I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

I don't gossip about myself.

At 46 years old, I can no longer afford take my health for granted.

I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.

I was never involved in any fights in high school. I'm glad I wasn't. I'm not very big, and I don't find great joy in cuts and bruises.

People always choose self-preservation over the greater good, most of the time, with the belief that self-preservation is the greater good.

Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.

Unfortunately, I've been burned a lot. So I have my guard up.

I have to look after myself. I go to the gym every day; I have physio every day, I have a couple of guys that work with my body a lot.

I'm now much less of an asset to the company than I could be. I keep my head down and for self-preservation just do my work with little conversation with anyone. Yet the irony is this: in my self-preservation, I'm actually destroying myself. In bottling up my unexpressed feelings, I'm making myself sick emotionally and physically.

I keep my head down and for self-preservation just do my work with little conversation with anyone. Yet the irony is this: in my self-preservation, I'm actually destroying myself. In bottling up my unexpressed feelings, I'm making myself sick emotionally and physically.

Why should the Increate protect us from ourselves? We might protect ourselves from ourselves. It may be that he will help us only when we come to regret what we have done.

For naturally a beast desires to flee From any enemy that he may see, Though never yet he's clapped on such his eye.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, 'Oh, nothing!' Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts - not to hurt others.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts — not to hurt others.        

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, Oh, nothing! Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts--not to hurt others.

When threatened, the nervous system sometimes goes into a 'freeze response.' You assess the risk and determine that fight or flight doesn't help you. Staying put does.

Before, if I'm in the wrong situation I tended to fight back and react in a way I know I shouldn't. If I feel backed into a corner or threatened, I will defend myself. Obviously it's wrong.

I am not made to be pulled into the public as a person. I feel threatened there.