Quotes About Self-preservation

No te intereses por nadie, Rafael; es mejor ser cruel con los demás que no tener que sufrir después calvario, pasión y muerte.

At Crenshaw, I was already known as a player. I didn't let anyone call me by my real name—Tracy. That would start fights. Niggas would say, "Tracy? That's a bitch's name." And shit would pop

Quienquiera que perfume a un escorpión no por ello escapará a su aguijonazo. Bahaudin Naqshband

You won't calm the tiger if you feed him with your own flesh

No god save self, that is the way to live ...

I'm at the point of view that I have to look after myself in various levels.

The next time someone shoots at you… try ducking.

Justine, whenever someone says 'this is for your own good,' it's a guarantee they're about to cause you some kind of damage.

Despite my deep and abiding affection for your parents, I'd rather not be overrun by Marsdens for the time being." "Neither would I," Merritt assured him. "Papa would ask a great many questions I have no wish to answer, and Mama... well, as you know, she's as subtle as a marauding Viking." The duke laughed softly. "In the interest of self-preservation, I'll withhold comment.

I do not know what to do with the emotions inside me. I do not know how to be this close to someone and still hold on to myself.

Shyness was a defense mechanism I had put up as a small child. Who knows why, but I felt safer keeping to myself than risk getting hurt by other people and I kept up that shield for years.

Don't let the bad get in you. Don't open the door to it, no matter how much it comes knockin' or how sweet it sounds askin'.

We are the wise. Do not envy us— We who are too wise to draw near the fire Lest we get burned; We who are too wise to love Lest love should vanish and we be hurt. We are the wise. Do not envy us our wisdom— We who are too wise to live Lest we should die.

But her so-called self-indulgence, her cutting everyone out of her life, had been an act of survival, not the act of a victim.

I don't get attached… There's no place for it in my world.

I'm not built that way, I'm not good at relationships. I'm not good at letting people in and keeping them. I don't know how.

Did you really save the world ?... - Mostly I was saving my own ass. Just happend that the world was in the same spot.

Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob? Bob's eyes darted nervously. I'd . . . prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.

Remember who you are. This creature wants to take it from you. Do not let him.

I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York.

I don't want to get killed. Or arrested. I'm really bad at being arrested. Or killed.

It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.

I dealt with it the same way I deal with everything. I just tended my own garden, didn't pay much attention, behaved—I suppose—deviously. I mean I didn't actually let too many people know what I was doing.

I did that on purpose,' Lucille Miller told Erwin Sprengle later, 'to save myself from letting my heart do something crazy.