“When self-preservation is not applied with discernment, it becomes the Devil’s tool or we can choose to take a chance on people… — Reena Doss Copy Share Image
When I read the article [in The New Yorker] by David Grann, I was very struck by people responding to the article,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The modern state appeals to morality, to religion, and to natural law as the ideological foundation of its existence. At the same… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants… — James Madison Copy Share Image
My inner wolf seeks to destroy the one I love for reasons of self-preservation. For the only cure to free my soul… — Bree Despain Copy Share Image
I should coldly, clinically think of myself and stop worrying about other people, as though I'm a necessary woman, indispensable to their… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
“Doing things for yourself (self-preservation) are ok in in small doses and when necessary but over-burdening you life with your own self… — Paul Isaacs Copy Share Image
“...but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of his person, who… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
You have to realize there is nothing more you can do to convince someone you love to turn their life around. You… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the… — Antonio R. Damasio Copy Share Image
“As you go about your daily life, you will encounter many lemons. Sour expressions, sour attitudes, sour auras! The good thing is… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
“With the courage of the soul, we don’t focus only on self-preservation, security, or safety; in fact, such courage compels us to… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to say no to things that people don't want you to say no to in the interest of self-preservation.… — Jenn Wasner Copy Share Image
“I didn't know how to tell him that I hadn't lost the instinct to survive and yet at the same time I… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that the country was electing Republicans, Obama wasn't being stopped, and it's because of the political system. The political… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“His immense self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and spread itself in pools at their feet, and all she did, miserable sinner… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“But open secret is a lie we like to tell ourselves. It's a lie we often told ourselves, in sickness and in… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
So he decided to stay out of it and instead turned back to Lady Bridgerton, who was, as it happened, the closest… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“No matter how much of a giver you are, never give away your happiness.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
People always choose self-preservation over the greater good, most of the time, with the belief that self-preservation is the greater good. — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
“Man's strongest instinct is not sex or self-preservation. it's to level the playing field.” — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
“Neighborliness is more than a slogan here; it is, as it has always been, an essential element of self-preservation in a challenging… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale. — Trinny Woodall Copy Share Image
And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I resisted the urge to point out that since Alona was already technically dead, it wouldn’t really be homicide. I do have… — Stacey Kade Copy Share Image
Not that I don't appreciate the rescue," Holt said. "But I'm forced to ask, in the interest of self-preservation ... exactly how… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
The danger of Iran is if you listen to what the Ayatollah is saying, to what the Mullahs are saying, rational self-preservation… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
![“When I read the article [in The New Yorker] by David Grann, I was very struck by people responding to the article, of people thinking I was such a hero and what a wonderful person I was, and I didn't feel that at all. I felt like I had very much, like Todd [Willingham], taken a path of…” quote by Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/80e/elizabeth-gilbert-131_articles_when-i-read-the-article-in-the-new-yorke_1458661.jpg)
