Quotes About Self-preservation

We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process.

Never let yourself be the victim of a situation where you're helpless enough to forget how to protect yourself.

Be careful when building walls to protect yourself. Those same walls may cage you in.

You can call it selfish, but there comes a time in life where you have to put yourself above all and think of yourself first!

So I place my heart under lock and key, to take some time to look after me. But when I turn around you're standing there...

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

At some point in life you just got to be your own hero and save your own heart. Because sometimes those who you thought would never hurt you or leave you will be the first to walk right out your life.

Your body is a gift, don't let just anybody unwrap your present.

Letting someone else hurt you over and over again, is the same thing as hurting yourself. You're just letting someone else do the dirty work.

In life, don't give away so much of yourself for anyone... that when it comes to finding yourself, you'd be lost.

Maybe if I just stop wanting so much, they can't hurt me.

now protecting ourselves from information.

locked in self-preservation ("I am threatened and must do anything I can to survive")

If you're not too heavily invested in your relationship with a personality-disordered person, consider getting out.

It was one of the other things his father had told him about surviving the gulag. The worse it was, the less you thought. You had to figure out a way to go down inside yourself, find a place no one could get to, and just be. Like a bear hibernating.

To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.

What I've learned in life... Love - but not too much. Give but leave something for yourself. Fight - but learn to let go. Cry - but try to move on. And most of all... Don't overuse your heart in loving someone. Sometimes we need to use our brain, to stop the pain.

If anyone asks, I'll tell them we both just moved on. When people all stare, I'll pretend that I don't hear them talk

Dont sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much theres nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.

Never wrestle with a pig—because you both get dirty but the pig loves it

The best way to deal with a sociopath is to avoid him or her, to refuse any kind of contact or communication. The only completely effective way to protect yourself is to disallow him or her from your life altogether. Sociopaths live wholly outside of the social contract, and, violent or not, they are always destructive.

recharge my ability to cope with humans at close quarters without losing my mind.