Quotes About Self-preservation

If we want recovery and healing we would be wise to take a break or possibly make a clean break from the one wounding us>

If we want recovery and healing we would be wise to take a break or possibly make a clean break from the one wounding us.

meant to shove love away. Quite the opposite. We set boundaries so we know what to do when we very much want to love those around us really well without losing ourselves in the process. Good boundaries help us preserve the love within us even when some relationships become unsustainable and we must accept the reality of a goodbye.

I didn't want to open up myself to yet another possible complicated disappointment. I reasoned, Walk away early so you don't have to suffer the pain of them falling away later. Some call that protecting yourself. But I knew in my case it was called letting past hurts hurt me all over again.

People have their acquired armor, made up of gestures and expressions and defensive chatter.

Put another way, painful or otherwise distressing psychosomatic symptoms are designed for self-preservation, not self-flagellation.

I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.

When somebody touches you...and you really don't wanna be touched, that's not really being touched. You still got you inside of you. And nobody has touched you. Not really. You still got you inside of you. You believe that.

that fear was "an important element to be bred in the civilian population. It is difficult to unite a people by talking only on the highest ethical plane. To fight for an ideal, perhaps, must be coupled with thoughts of self-preservation.

Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.

Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

I don't want to get attached to anyone anymore. It only destroys me in the end.

Maybe she is mean because her heart has been broken so many times that her meanness protects her from being hurt again.

I should stop being so nice cause some people just seem to take it the wrong way.

I think I'm done with being nice because at the end of the day, I get taken advantage of. They get everything and I get nothing.

You wanna know why I push people away? It's because I've been hurt too many times before. So many damn people have gone in and out of my life. Some because of stupid reasons, but others with no reason at all. I push people away, because I'm sick of getting attached. I push people away, because I'm tired of getting hurt when they never cared. I'm just sick and tired of it. I leave before I get hurt. Simple as that. Besides, if someone is meant to be in my life, they'll come back...somehow.

You can only let someone throw so many stones at you before you start picking them all up and using them to build a wall to keep that person out of your life.

Sometimes we have to shut people out of our lives, not because we want to, but because they hurt us so much, we have to.

Most people who act heartless have a sweet heart. They just act heartless to protect themselves from getting hurt again.

There are times that, you have to stop caring,you have to turn off all emotions & feelings just to protect yourself from getting hurt.

The easiest way to not get hurt is to not care, but thats the hardest thing to do.

Always kept everything to myself because didn't want people to find my weak points and hurt me. I'd decide to give them a chance and they'd break my heart.

Not being selfish but I'm scared of being hurt again and I'm trying to take care of my feelings more than I take care of anyone else's feelings.

I can ACT like stuff doesn't phase me and I don't care but that's just me trying to guard myself from being hurt.