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.

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...

His immense self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and spread itself in pools at their feet, and all she did, miserable sinner that she was, was to draw her skirts a little closer round her...

I am an extremely sincere individual. I am sincere, to a fault. One of the many things that I have come to realize, to learn, is that sincerity must be reserved and given only to...

Secrets and lies… Everyone in the world deals with these every day of their lives. To protect themselves. To protect someone else. It is all in the way that you look at the situation.

As you go about your daily life, you will encounter many lemons. Sour expressions, sour attitudes, sour auras! The good thing is that if you don’t want to be a lemon, you don’t have to...

When you’re surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn’t a sin.

My life is precious and you’re not allowed to hurt me.

It is that we are afraid, that we look to love. It is when we love, that we become afraid.

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.

According to Melanie Klein, we develop moral responses in reaction to questions of survivability. My wager is that Klein is right about that, even as she thwarts her own insight by insisting that it is...

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

That level of responsibility drastically conflicts with my belief in self-preservation by inactivity.

She didn’t dare expose her heart the way she’d exposed her body.

People have a tendency of filtering their memories – exaggerate the positives and downplay their weaknesses and faults. Self-preservation will be another obstacle you will have to surmount when it comes to suppressed memories.

She’s Devine.She’s Magic. And she didn’t have to wait for anyone to tell her in order for her to believe that about herself. And that’s what made her so magically beautiful.

After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‘people.’ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war. If it is held that the instinct for preserving the species...

Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks himself a villain, and few make decisions they think are wrong. A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it because, even in the...

…the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of...

Wealth is not what you have for yourself. Wealth is what you share with others.

Man’s strongest instinct is not sex or self-preservation. it’s to level the playing field.

Memories are meant to serve you, not enslave you.

Certain motherfuckers think they can fuck with my shit, but you can’t kill the Rooster. You might can fuck him up some times, but, bitch, nobody kills the motherfucking Rooster. You know what I’m saying?

Beauty should never lower its guard around Appetite.

Sometimes you just need to know when a fight is best saved for another day when the odds are more in your favour.

Those who cannot dance, should not dance.

Considering one’s plate is full with circumstance, how senseless is it to assume one is able to digest someone else’s hopelessness?