Quotes About Self-preservation

You learn about fight or flight, but no one ever mentions the third alliterative option - freeze.

Sometimes people say I look grim or angry. Better to have them think that than know the truth. Better to have them think anything than know just how easy it is to hurt me.

When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust." She

Nothing is going to save us. If we don't save ourselves, we're dead.

Quando si tratta di estranei armati, penso che il sospetto ti aiuti a restare vivo più della fiducia.

When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.

In the 2020s, when these people were sick, starving, or trying to keep warm, they had no time or energy to look beyond their own desperate situations.

Sometimes people say I look grim or angry. Better to have them think that than know the truth. Better to have them think anything than let them know just how easy it is to hurt me.

I look grim or angry. Better to have them think that than know the truth. Better to have them think anything than let them know just how easy it is to hurt me.

When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.

Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward.

I have frantically played the clown in order to distangle myself from these painful relationships, only to wear myself out as a result.

I have tried insofar as possible to avoid getting involved in the sordid complications of human beings. I have been afraid of being sucked down into their bottomless whirlpool.

Los cobardes temen hasta la felicidad. Pueden herirse incluso con el algodón.

I could worry about his health but somehow not about my own. We throw ourselves away a little each day.

We will do anything to get away from our own pain. We will change our lives, rip people out, swallow a bottle of life-ending pills. When we hurt more than we can bear, when our lives get that dark, it's shocking what we will do to protect ourselves.

People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.

People who say that vampires don't care about anyone except themselves are mostly right—but sometimes they are very and lethally wrong.

I mean never put yourself in a position where harm to you would make the fae community here safer.

If the parent represses the girl's anger not just once but over and over again, a deeper injury occurs: the girl will eventually dismantle her anger response. Ultimately, it's safer for her to cut off a part of her being than to battle the person on whom her life depends.

You show you care, you die. You show you fear, you die. You show nothing, maybe you live.

All animals must have the basic circuitry for self-care, or they will fail to survive long enough to reproduce. In the evolution of the mammalian brain, the range of myself was extended to include my babies .

Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you ave any of yerself left at all?