Quotes About Self-preservation

One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma is there for no other purpose than inquiring after the Absolute Truth.

Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

Don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

Why travel to the Moon or Mars if we only continue our wars there with Russia or China or Africa? Why build rockets at all? For fun? For adventure? Or is this the same process that sends the salmons back upstream year after year to spawn and die - a subliminal urge in mankind to spread, in self-preservation, to the stars? Are we then secretly fearful that one day the sun might freeze and the the earth grow cold or the sun explode in a terrific thermal cataclysm and burn down our house of cards?

For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is certain, that nothing will ever happen to me. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there are.

Yossarian attended the education sessions because he wanted to find out why so many people were working so hard to kill him.

The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and that includes Colonel Cathcart. And don't you forget that, because the longer you remember it, the longer you might live.

The instinct of self-preservation is the first law of nature; your strongest instinct is the most potent of all auto-suggestions.

These are the ones who escape after the last hurt is turned inward; they are the most dangerous ones.

Remembering backward is the easy thing. If you could remember forward, you could save yourself…

He'd never risk his life if he could avoid it. "I'd rather live, thank you." In

Then remember what I'm telling you. Keep your feelings to yourself. Don't ever show anyone your disappointment

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life. ROBIN NORWOOD

Ho jaaoge be-matlab hi badnaam raaz apne, apne tak hi rakha karo

It is not an artifice that the mind has added to human nature. The mind has added nothing to human nature. It is a violence from within that protects us from a violence without It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do wIth our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.

Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection, safety and security, just as a child depends on its parent. For self-preservation man has conceived the idea of an immortal Soul or Atman, which will live eternally. In his ignorance, weakness, fear, and desire, man needs these two things to console himself. Hence he clings to them deeply and fanatically.

What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it away or minimize it, than point it out and cause the liar embarassment?

It's a dog eat dog world. But only if the second dog is more stupid than the first.

I have saved no one but myself and now I watch for the other universe to unravel in my skull, for the sky to become my own skin and fill with stars.

Even in modern humans, System 1 takes over in emergencies and assigns total priority to self-protective actions.

Violence had lost the personal touch, the pride had gone out of self-preservation, and mere chickenshit possibilities of improved technology replaced it.

Ako ne možeš da deluješ u pogibeljnoj sprezi tih protivure?nih sila, moralnih i pesni?kih, povuci se. Zalivaj kupus u svome vrtu, a ruže gaji samo na groblju. Jer ruže su pogubne po dušu.

When Life comes to feed, make sure you are not the main course. - Metaphysical Minute

The fight-or-flight dichotomy is the appropriate set of choices for any creature faced with danger other than that which comes from its own species.