Quotes About Self-preservation

It is better to let people down than to blow yourself up.

So we need, more than ever, to know how to edit the world, so it can never break us down.

Ne bojim se ljubavi. Bojim se rizika. I zavisnosti. I mogu?eg bola... Uvijek si jednom nogom u bjekstvu, uvijek polovinom sebe u ljubavi. Drugu ostavljam u pripravnosti da izvu?e ludaka.Ali ta moja necini?na polovina mnogo te voli.Toliko da me prevari cijelog..Ve?eras ti se nudim sav. Reci da me voliš, šta te staje?

Ali ako ga i nisam odbio, želio sam da skrenem razgovor, nisam volio da iko kopa po meni.

Self-preservation is as important as generosity. Because if you don't preserve yourself, keep enough for yourself, then of course you have nothing to give.

Because if you don't preserve yourself, keep enough for yourself, then of course you have nothing to give.

Do you want your name to live forever? You fool! Forget your name, try to save yourself! What use there is for you, if your name lives and you die? You fool!

Don't die for the country! Don't die for the love! Don't die for anything! Always choose life! Under every circumstance this is your real duty in life!

You go shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself.

According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I'll thank him for the advice.

It's how they've stayed popular for so long. By not doing anything that will make them look like fools. They never leave home without their safety nets and I think, good for them, but the thing with safety nets is this. I got tangled in them so many times and the Stella girls always seemed to leave me dangling, upside down, to the point where I almost couldn't breathe anymore.

So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around? What will be left of me then?

I think it's about time to save myself

I think it's about time I saved myself

Not just a name but a state of mind I never want to revisit, although I do keep him at the back of my mind for those times I get my hopes raised about something. So then I can slap myself into reality and remind myself of what happens when you let someone into your sacred space.

According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I'll thank him for the advice.

Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive.

I will keep you safe- from them and from me.

But you didn't need me, did you? You'd already got yourself to safety." "Sometimes, I sleep better knowing you . . . and Niall . . ." She faltered. "Love you from a safe distance," he finished. "Yes.

When you're surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn't a sin.

What happened to English after the Battle of Ethandune was that it not only endured, it thrived, it grew. Having held steady under fire, it moved forward. The two principal reasons for this were Alfred himself and what seems to me to be the profoundly self-preserving nature of the language which had so slowly and doggedly alchemised into English.

For one, he was worried he'd get killed, which was something he generally tried to avoid.

I'm not being defensive, I'm just defending myself.

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.