Quotes About Self-preservation

A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.

What makes the difference between healthy and destructive organization is what you are organizing for. When the church decides to organize around controlling people, politics, and self-preservation, it eventually leads to unhealthy and restrictive organization.

The underlying logic of a living thing is its own survival.

Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.

I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.

One of the things that I share with Bryan Becket is this hole in my childhood memory. There's about five years of my life that's virtually gone. I've thought about it a lot, and I've come to the conclusion that it might be for my own protection that those memories are gone, and maybe I don't want to dredge up those things.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

So he held the words tightly inside, safe from ridicule, safe from harm..

He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.

Man distinguishes himself from Nature. This distinction of his is his God: the distinguishing of God from Nature is nothing else than the distinguishing of man from Nature. … [S]peculations and controversies concerning the personality or impersonality of God are therefore fruitless, idle, uncritical … ; … they in truth speculate only concerning themselves, only in the interest of their own instinct of self-preservation[.]

I'm sick and tired of people in my life abandoning me, and she will be just one more. So I do what is easiest, when I feel like I'm in danger of being left behind. I make sure I'm the one to walk away first.

We isolated ourselves, because it hurt less.

There's a word we learned in social studies: schadenfreude. It's when you enjoy watching someone else suffer. The real question though, is why? I think part of it is self preservation. And part of it is because a group always feels more like a group when it's banded together against an enemy. It doesn't matter if that enemy has never done anything to hurt you-you just have to pretend you hate someone even more than you hate yourself.

Jack could feel the fissures beginning even now, the hard shell he'd promised to keep in place so that no one, ever, would get close enough to hurt him again.

He taught me that if a body is easily crushed, it develops a weapon to prevent that from happening.

Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.

Members of dysfunctional families give up their ego boundaries as a way to maintain the family system. Giving up ego boundaries is equivalent to giving up your identity.

Care too little, you'll lose them. Care too much, you'll get hurt.

The easiest way to avoid getting hurt is to stop caring but not caring is the hardest thing to do.

Sometimes, you just have to stop caring,you have to turn off all emotion & feeling to protect yourself from getting hurt.

If you dont want to be easily broken, dont let yourself be easily taken.

Best way to not get your heart broken, is to pretend you don't have one.

I gave my heart to the wrong person but through it all I became selfish, selfish enough to not give it all again to the wrong person!