Quotes About Self-preservation

Some stories you should run from while you still have legs.

His only cause, ultimately, was himself.

Only one in four has a chance at making it.... And right there, I knew that if one of us was getting off dope, and staying off dope, it was going to be me . I was going to live. I was the guy.

I'm still here, I tell myself. I'm still here.

Training was one thing, reality another, and no one could be sure that the ancient human instincts of self-preservation would not take over in an emergency.

El asunto era bien simple: tenía miedo de sí mismo y de lo que estaba dispuesto a hacer para mantenerla a salvo.

When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less.

She had done so much to preserve herself from this kind of captivity and had taken inevitably one of the many roads which would lead her to the same torment; she was helpless among people who hated her and showed it by holding her motionless until they should choose to release her.

It's just easier not to be noticed. That way people don't expect things from you. There's no pressure, nothing to fear.

I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.

There were two big lessons to be learned in all of this: first, the pain of the past is unfortunately not so easily stripped away, and second, not to allow anyone ever again to take a literal or figurative whack at me.

It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.

I'm learning how to keep my identity and personal life sacred. It's a matter of knowing my limits. I don't have to give everything that's asked of me.

I was being hated for about 40 or 50 years by the whole world, but it did not destroy me, and it did not ruin my health. And the reason is because I just did not answer them. I had my own life.

It's amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we're trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt.

Instantaneous forgiveness can bring longstanding self-preservation, not to mention a cheaper Ralph's bill on Rolaids.

There's only so many times you can fight before the only person you fight for is yourself.

Do not make yourself a bridge for everyone to cross on you, because there are some people they put nail on their feet to cross on you.

To reach for yourself is to survive, to reach for others is to provide.

If you can't save your own life, is it even worth saving?

Stay Alive in Your Own Life

What was the point, I had to wonder, of fighting so hard to learn to protect my life if I was destroying it in the process?

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? Yet if I am for myself only, what am I?

They are fools that fear to lose their wealth by giving, but fear not to lose themselves by keeping it.