Quotes about Self-preservation

The motive of self-preservation The motive of financial gain The motive of love The motive of sexuality The motive of desire for power and fame The motive of fear The motive of revenge The motive of freedom (of body and mind) The motive of desire to create or build in thought or in material

If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive?

People love to believe in danger, as long as it's you in harm's way, and them saying bless your heart.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

How long do you expect me to wait while you cauterize your senses, one after another turning yourself to an impervious glass tower?

these people would indeed only be concerned for themselves, for their egoism, just like the bandit, from whom they are distinguished only by the absurdity of their means.

There is an important difference between openness and naïveté. Not everyone has good intentions nor means me well. I remind myself I do not need to change these people, only recognize who they are.

It's a law of survival, isn't it?—to seek the best. I didn't come for your sake. I came for mine.

Our church, which has been fighting in these years only for its self-preservation, as though that were an end in itself, is incapable of taking the word of reconciliation and redemption to mankind and the world.

Satan attempts to twist the meaning and therefore the application of God's Word in the hope that we will misuse his promises for self-preservation

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.

Pain was something to get used to, to inure yourself against. I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of purpose and without remorse.