{"quotes":[{"text":"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 it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day. (p.28).","author":"António R. Damásio","tags":["avoidance","body","denial","hidden","life","mind","screen","self-preservation","self-protection","veil"],"id":3183,"author_id":"Ant%C3%B3nio+R.+Dam%C3%A1sio"},{"text":"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.","author":"Alexis Lawrence","tags":["memories","self-preservation"],"id":17041,"author_id":"Alexis+Lawrence"},{"text":"In one form or the other, the quest for human dignity has proved to be one of the most propulsive elements for wars, civil strife and willing sacrifice. Yet the entitlement to dignity, enshrined among the 'human rights', does not aspire to being the most self-evident, essential need for human survival, such as food, or physical health. Compared to that other candidate for the basic impulse of human existence - self-preservation - it may even be deemed self-indulgent.","author":"Wole Soyinka","tags":["dignity","existence","human-rights","self-preservation"],"id":34025,"author_id":"Wole+Soyinka"},{"text":"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 be! Just don't let those lemons rub themselves all over you! And you don't even have to save them! Let lemons be lemons! One of the most important things that I have ever learned, is that I don't have to save people.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["dealing-with-people","inspirational-attitude","inspirational-life","inspirational","lemons","life-and-living","people","saving-people","self-preservation","sour-attitudes"],"id":34880,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"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 those who deserve it. And one must save one's emotions, channeling them only to the people who are worthy of it. One must not throw one's pearls to the pigs.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["emotions","inspirational","poise","self-preservation","sincerity","the-art-of-poise","wisdom"],"id":46961,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"The religion I am talking about here is plain everyday humanism. That’s exactly what the person named Jesus attempted to spread, but due to innate psychological reasons, his pupils ended up constructing yet another orthodox circle with its own distinct beliefs, ideals and fantasies.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["beliefs","brainy","christ","christianity","christians","compassion","consciousness","evolutionary-psychology","fantasies","gods","human-mind","human-nature","ideals","jesus","jesus-christ","jesus","love","love-thy-neighbor","neurotheology","philosophy","prophets","religion","religions","religious-diversity","science-and-religion","science-of-human-nature","science-of-mind","self-preservation","truth"],"id":47268,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"That level of responsibility drastically conflicts with my belief in self-preservation by inactivity.","author":"C.L. Allen","tags":["belief","inactivity","responsibility","self-preservation"],"id":48487,"author_id":"C.L.+Allen"},{"text":"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.","author":"Laarni Venus Marie Giango","tags":["existence","falling-in-love","hate","love","love-hurts","love","love-story","lovers","relationships","self-preservation","survival"],"id":54210,"author_id":"Laarni+Venus+Marie+Giango"},{"text":"Wealth is not what you have for yourself. Wealth is what you share with others.","author":"J.R. Rim","tags":["accumulate","accumulation","care","others","save","self-preservation","share","virtue","wealth","wealthy"],"id":62103,"author_id":"J.R.+Rim"},{"text":"Without parlaying with the renunciation of the world, a person must establish a means to live in harmony with the uncertainties of a chaotic world.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["adaptation","adjustments","chaotic","endure","self-preservation","survival"],"id":63668,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":53,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}