Quotes About Self-preservation

Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wishe for medicines.

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.

I guess I need to find a happy medium, someplace between giving them what they want and ending up face-down in a pool of my own goddamn integrity.

I have one rule about trouble. When it comes, I get out of the way.

Nobody else is going to protect yourself. You've got to protect yourself.

As soon as I sense you're developing feelings, I'm going to cut it off, because I'm not interested in a relationship and I'm emotionally unavailable.

If I know the guy is not interested, I don't fall in love. This is my safety.

Look out for Number One. If you don't, no one else will.

Writing, for me, was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life.

As women we've been programmed to sacrifice everything in the name of what is good and right for everyone else. Then if there's an inch left over, maybe we can have a piece of that. We need to deprogram ourselves. I know for sure that you can't give what you don't have. If you allow yourself to be depleted to the point where your emotional and spiritual tank is empty and you're running on fumes of habit, everybody loses. Especially you.

Yirmi ya??mdan beri üzerimde beni her türlü beladan ve mutsuzluktan koruyan görünmez bir z?rh olduÄŸu duygusu vard? içimde. Bu duygunun bir yan?, bana baÅŸkalar?n?n mutsuzluÄŸuyla fazla meÅŸgul olman?n beni de mutsuz edebileceÄŸini ve z?rh?m?n delinmesine yol açabileceÄŸini sezdirirdi.

When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end.

And anyway most people are idiots. They don't care about the why. They only care about what threatens them.

I know because I was also broken as a child and forced to become a wicked conniving selfish manipulating monster in order to protect the fragile love-hungry girl who would have been destroyed by the life I had to lead.

humans will always act to preserve their own lives—except for the times when they don't.

Insouciant heroes aren't brave or relaxed. They're just trying not to embarrass themselves in the moments before they die. She

I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

struck him early on that people were afraid of the enemy because they were terrified that their lives might get diluted, that they might lose themselves in the tangle of knowing each other.

The more noise you make the more likely you are to be eaten. If you've no way to escape you keep silent. If birds couldnt fly they wouldnt sing. When you're defenseless you keep your opinions to yourself.

Keep the dogs off me!

So he had thrust her out of his heart as he always did with anyone who tried to stay there too long.

Oggi si soffre e si fa soffrire, si uccide e si muore, si compiono cose meravigliose e cose orrende, non già per salvare la nostra anima, ma per salvare la propria pelle.