Crush Quote by Taisen Deshimaru

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

— Plato

“We humans are so defenceless compared to the rest of the natural world, he thought to himself. We have no shell to protect us,…

— Tabitha Suzuma

Safety is an illusion, and trying to protect ourselves does nothing more than protect us from experiencing a full, evolved, and juicy life.

— Jen Sincero

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

— Ken Thompson

“Somewhere it is being prepared. Somewhere deep in the heart of Germany the shell is being made. Some German girl is polishing it right…

— Dalton Trumbo

“But didn't everyone have a shell? Hard, external armor protecting the soft, vulnerable creature beneath? Perhaps, she thought, people were more like ammonites than…

— Tessa Dare

Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in…

— Peter Matthiessen

It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for…

— Anonymous

People decide they like one another, based upon the color of their shells that they wear on the outside of them. And then they…

— CJoybell C

Our saving grace! Um, as a species [humans] we can be pretty warm and fuzzy. But maybe for this, it's the adaptability, or the…

— Keanu Reeves

We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing…

— Holly Black

To protect this earth is to protect the very spirit of life

— Sakyong Mipham