She’d survived the Drowned Cities because she wasn’t anything like Mouse. When the bullets started flying and warlords started making examples of peacekeeper collaborators, Mahlia had kept her head down, instead of standing up like Mouse. She’d looked out for herself, first. And because of that, she’d survived.
Paolo BacigalupiTag: self-preservation
Save your shaming for the girl, Doctor. If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.” He turned and started wading into the swamp. “Time is passing. I, for one, have no intention of remaining here for your betrayer to bring back the soldiers and their guns.
Paolo BacigalupiTag: approval self-preservation shaming
She must protect herself. There would be no one to do it for her. A plan started to prick up its ears inside her, slowly, but getting stronger.
Catherynne M. ValenteTag: planning self-reliance self-preservation
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 seed, refuses to plant his fields.
Andy StanleyTag: fear giving finances self-preservation plannings irrational planting god-s-kingdom
self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
Baruch SpinozaTag: virtue 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.
James AllenTag: self-empowerment weakness self-help self-awareness self-improvement self-realization quotes awakening quotes-to-define-my-life self-preservation self-power quotes-that-make-sense quotes-i-love help-self strength-of-mind quotes-on-life
When you're surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn't a sin.
Meljean BrookTag: stupidity self-preservation
She didn’t dare expose her heart the way she’d exposed her body.
Nicki ElsonTag: sex seduction self-preservation love-hurts
Training was one thing, reality another, and no one could be sure that the ancient human instincts of self-preservation would not take over in an emergency.
Arthur C. ClarkeTag: self-preservation first-contact emergency
There's a fine line between self-preservation and mummification.
Mik EverettTag: self-preservation eating-disorders
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