Quotes About Self-preservation

But, Sergeant Osbern, Sir, I like my head.

I don't do friends.

If you begin to give away parts of yourself, eventually you'll give it all. And once you've lost yourself, haven't you lost everything?

You accept that people are the way they are. There's nothing you can do about it, except learn ways to minimize the damage they can do to you. It's like rain. We don't feel a need to forgive the sky for raining on a day when we really wanted sunshine, do we? No. We might be upset and disappointed, but the need to forgive never enters our mind.

I'd always wanted to be a princess saved by a magical knight. But now I wished I'd learned how to save myself FROM the knight - just a little bit. Why didn't anyone tell princesses that knights were sometimes more dangerous than dragons?

I am I, I am he. We are, but I am I, first I am I, I will defend being I until I am unable to fight any longer. I am I, Atalia. Ego. Yo. A professional degree, an Argentine, a scarlet fingernail, pretty sometimes, big dark eyes, I. Atalia Donosi, I. Yo. Yo-yo, windlass and hawser. Funny.

Nothing more exhilarating (he wrote) than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.

You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either.

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Hide yourself under a bushel quickly, for if your real usefulness were known to the world you would soon be knocked down to the highest bidder by the public auctioneer.

Actors should never give interviews.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.

Emotions help us navigate a complex world that we don't fully comprehend. They are our body's way of ensuring that we do what is best for us.

Estar resentido por el éxito de otro puede parecer mezquino, pero a la larga evita que abusen de uno.

Amurallar el propio sufrimiento es arriesgarse a que te devore desde el interior.

Being unkillable, so long as one had some healing power stored up, could do strange things to a person's sense of self-preservation. Of course, Wayne had probably been drunk at the time. That also tended to do strange things to a person's sense of self-preservation

Shame can only rise so far in any system before people disengage to protect themselves. When we're disengaged, we don't show up, we don't contribute, and we stop caring.

Keep everyone at a safe distance and always have an exit strategy.

All of my stages were different suits of armor that kept me from becoming too engaged and too vulnerable. Each strategy was built on the same premise: Keep everyone at a safe distance and always have an exit strategy.

self-preservation was more important than revenge, and

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

a man will put forth greater efforts to save himself from ruin than he will merely to improve his position.

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.