Quotes About Self-preservation

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

I have never encountered angrier and more cynical employees than those I've met in socially responsible companies that have been so focused on saving the world they neglected to do what was necessary to save themselves.

They concluded that every suicide can be explained as "an attempt to maintain or enhance the self." The mind is maintained at the expense of the life of the being. The mind survives by being right. The mind would rather be right and die than be wrong and live.

It is always us against them. That's what all of life is. We fight wars for that reason. We make decisions every day to protect our own loved ones, even if it means hardships for others. You buy your boy a new pair of cleats for lacrosse. Maybe you could have used that money to save a starving child in Africa. But no, you let that child starve. Us against them. We all do this." "Tripp?

They all hunger for the details not solely because they are ghoulish—that's part of it, no question—but more because they need to know that it can't possibly happen to them.

Bir askerin tehlikeli, may?nl? bir bölgeden geçmesini saÄŸlayan türden bir cesaret deÄŸil bu. O, mecbur olduÄŸu için toplad??? bir cesarettir. Bu cesaret türüyse -ÅŸey, bir insan?n yaÅŸama azminin, kendini koruma içgüdüsünün bir parças?d?r. Bazen yaÅŸayabilmemiz için az?c?k öldürmemiz gerekir.

Oh, not the kind of courage that makes a soldier go across no-man's land. That's the kind that he summons up because he has to. This kind is- well, it is part of one's will to live, part of one's instinct for self-preservation. Sometimes, we have to kill a little so we can live, when we don't-when women don't, they cry themselves to sleep and have their mothers wash out their hose every day.

I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person's attitude so that they wouldn't get any closer. I didn't easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music

I've built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself

The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality only at the risk of being driven into the wilderness yourself...

Naturally I have zero friends. I've built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself. Who could like someone like that? They all keep an eye on me, but I'm just glad they didn't bother me. They might hate me, or even afraid of me.

Perhaps this was the wisdom with which a child in her position survived: by minimizing her wounds—staying as small as possible, as nearly transparent as possible.

I still have that fear, even now—that suddenly my very existence will be denied and, through no fault of my own, I'll be hurled into the night sea once more. Maybe that's why I haven't been able to form deep relationships with people. I always keep a distance between me and others." He

I've built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself. Who could like somebody like that?

make believe forest I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person's attitude so that they wouldn't get any closer. I didn't easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music.

Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you are in captivity? You become the closest approximation of yourself that can tolerate living there.

At the age of 19 I made a choice not to read anything that's written about me. I just don't touch it because it's not good for you.

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.

NASA trains you to assess emergency situations and react in a way to keep yourself and everyone else safe.

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

Don't care too much, Porsche. Every person you meet will use it against you.

I turns arounds slowly, knowing if I turn too quick they gon' gun me down.

A girl should never be stupid unless she is pretending to be stupid to save her own life," Lina said.