106 Quotes About Self-preservation

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.

We must always remember that we are not obliged to give away all of the light in us. We may keep it within us, let it burn inside, let it light up our own minds and fuel up our own hearts. Our light is primarily OURS. Then as we illuminate from what is within, others may see, and they may have light too. The business of giving all of our light away... it is a great deception, a big fat lie.

It is selfish to want others to be selfless.

Memories are meant to serve you, not enslave you.

You can release people and still love them.

Self-preservation is to hunker down in the suffocating confines of this infinitesimally tiny existence that I define as ‘me,’ instead of letting ‘me’ run through the infinitely massive expanse of everything that is not me. And if the beast of self-preservation does not permit such freedoms, I will preserve myself to my own death.

Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.

Sweep aside those hatred-eaten mystics, who pose as friends of humanity and preach that the highest virtue man can practice is to hold his own life as of no value. Do they tell you that the purpose of morality is to curb man’s instinct of self-preservation? It is for the purpose of self-preservation that man needs a code of morality. The only man who desires to be moral is the man who desires to live.

A woman can only stay in love with a man for as long as she continues loving herself when she's with him. As soon as she starts to hate who she has become while in the relationship, she will move heaven and earth to end it. Does she get hurt? Definitely. It doesn't mean that she wants to leave her love for him has faded or diminished. However, just like the most basic rule of human existence, you cannot continue giving what you do not have.