#reservation

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#hath #himself #his #liberty #life

By the immediate preservation of eggs for home consumption through the use of water glass or lime water, larger supplies of fresh eggs may be made available for marketing later in the season, when production is less and prices higher. ↗

— David F. Houston

#consumption #eggs #fresh #glass #higher

A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#preservation #suicide #communication

Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deep...slow...breathing. Of this, the natural law of self-preservation demands. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#breathing #conscious #deep #divide #division

Indeed His blessings are in the struggle. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#god #hope #inspirational #motivational #preservation

Every man's his own friend, my dear," replied Fagin, with his most insinuating grin. "He hasn't as good a one as himself anywhere." Except sometimes," replied Morris Bolter, assuming the air of a man of the world. "Some people are nobody's enemies but their own, yer know." Don't believe that!" said the Jew. "When a man's his own enemy, it's only because he's too much his own friend; not because he's careful for everybody but himself. Pooh! Pooh! There ain't such a thing in nature. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#nature

I have reservations about everything I do. ↗

— Larry David

#everything #i #i do #reservations

As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way that I could. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

#anthrax #any #biological #could #defense

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#general #impulses #organized #our #preservation

Beauty should never lower its guard around Appetite. ↗

— Shay Caroline

#desire #self-preservation #beauty