Quotes about Self preservation

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If my goal is simply to survive the journey, then I’m not on the journey in the first place. — Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons
Those who cannot dance, should not dance. — Cian Beirdd
In one form or the other, the quest for human dignity has proved to be one of the most propulsive elements for wars, civ — Wole Soyinka, Climate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World
...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other on — José Saramago, Blindness
Without parlaying with the renunciation of the world, a person must establish a means to live in harmony with the uncert — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger m — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Just because something is ubiquitous does not mean that it is innocuous. — Clifford Cohen
She didn’t dare expose her heart the way she’d exposed her body. — Nicki Elson, Divine Temptation
His immense self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and spread itself in pools at their feet, and all she did, miserab — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
The instinct of self-preservation and the urge to self-destruction are equally strong in man! The Devil has equal a sway — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue. — Baruch Spinoza
When you're surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn't a sin. — Meljean Brook, Riveted
Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his — Andy Stanley, Fields Of Gold
Self-preservation and determination meant she could get away with anything. As her law-abiding, conventionally minded da — Mary Allsebrook
Maybe that's why Claire had perfected the art of invisibility. It was a form of self-preservation. You couldn't resent w — Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls