Save Yourself Quotes

“Do not try to save
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create
a clearing
in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there
patiently,
until the song
that is yours alone to sing
falls into your open cupped hands
and you recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know
how to give yourself
to this world so worthy of rescue.”
― Martha Postlethwaite

“The game had changed.Her against them.Save herself to save herself.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“Trauma isn’t going to win today. Remember how Daphne turned into the laurel tree? This is what you must do too. Form your own roots, feed from the earth that still loves you. Remember how.”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“You won't eat to save yourself, but you will to save a stranger. How interesting.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Shadow Throne

“Your heart beats against the palm of my hand.
Its
need
to be
one with me
drips
between my fingertips
as I squeeze perfect drops of love into small
receptacles to be preserved,

for later.”
― N'Zuri Za Austin, Fragments of a Reflection: Short Stories & Poetry

“I never stopped trying to save you, so don't you fucking dare stop trying to save yourself.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“Give everyone room to mess up so that when they do you won't be disappointed and if they don't you'll be impressed.”
― TemitOpe Ibrahim

“Girls like us, we have to save ourselves. Nobody else will get you home.”
― Christina Henry, Looking Glass

“There is a type of courage that cannot always be seen. It's a bravery that you have to choose for yourself. You use it in the little, seemingly insignificant choices and decisions you make each day. Keep making these tiny, good choices over and over until you realize your whole life is different and the hero who saved you is yourself.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Your magic is there, if only you would let it be instead of fighting it all the time.”
― Christina Henry, Looking Glass

“When I was too young to know better, I dreamed of a white knight. Someone who'd rescue me, protect me, keep me from harm. By the time I found him, all I wanted was for him to know I didn't need protecting.”
― Sonali Dev, A Change of Heart

“You can do anything, but not everything. You don't have to save the world, just yourself.”
― Brittany Burgunder, Safety in Numbers: From 56 to 221 Pounds, My Battle with Eating Disorders

“Sometimes you’re the only one that can save yourself; for no one is coming to save you.”
― R.J. Intindola

“It's better to write something, anything, than to starve the monster. The monster must feed. And it will feed on your soul if not your words. Its appetite is insatiable. Write to save yourself from the monster.”
― Don Roff

“She had been calledmi princesa hermosa,but the tales her mother had told weren't only about the pale blond ones locked in towers waiting for a prince to come. Janeta had heard tales of African princesses, brave and strong, fighting to protect their people.”
― Alyssa Cole, An Unconditional Freedom

“There is a type of bravery and courage that cannot always be seen. It's a bravery that you have to choose for yourself. You use it in the little, seemingly insignificant choices and decisions you make each day. You keep making these tiny, good choices over and over until you realize your whole life is different and the hero who saved you is yourself.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Write to save yourself... and someday you'll write because you've been saved.

You will feel terrible shame for this. Let your humility grow larger than your shame.”
― Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

“You’re not resisting enough, darling. If you wanted to go, you would. Unsurprisingly, you’re giving up. You’re still as weak as you were and you will always be if you continue looking at yourself this way. The cycle will never end. I can’t help you forever. You have to make a change now. Separate yourself from yourself. Time won’t wait for anyone, even you.”
― Neda Aria, Rhythm of Missing Pieces

“Intent on not worrying for the rest of the day, I jumped out of bed and plugged my iPack into the radio. I selected 'Save Yourself' and heard the guitar strumming from the speakers. The singer's voice drifted over waves in the atmosphere, swaying between air currents, and entered my mind producing a relaxing effect.”
― D.M. Shiro, The Grate

“Learn to when to build bridges
When people or life disappoints you it's normal to build a wall and not allow anyone to climb it.
When people get hurt they need to Learn how to build a bridge and not walls.
In reality you should be building new bridges when life disappoints you build bridges to connect with like-minded others to connect with you.
If you but a wall you do not allow yourself to connect with others.”
― Charles E Hudson

“Put your temper to more use
cause
Being broke is a poor excuse”
― Eminem

“Speak your truth no matter how difficult it is. Redeem yourself. No one else can.”
― Mystqx Skye, Bared - Beneath a Myriad of Skies

“Give a life to The Green, your life will be Evergreen”
― Navin Polaki

“I believe that many of our pressing racial problems will be taken care of when we who are among the minorities will stand on our own feet and refuse to look to anybody else to save us from our situation.”
― Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

“There are bruises on the limbs that won't break that are far more uncomfortable and traumatic than those that do. They call it depression, an ill-fated monster that devours, cuts, breaks, and crushes you from within.”
― D.L. Lewis

“Sometimes you have to make a lot of noise in order to save yourself. Save what you love. That’s what we’re trying to do here.”
― Fiona Davis, A Wild Rose

“I don't want my only option to be running,' I said.

'Running,' Amren cut in, 'kept you alive today.'

I ignored her. 'I want to know how to fight my way out. I don't want to have to wait on anyone to rescue me.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Stop trying to save me when I can save my own damn self! For once!”
― Candace Robinson, Ozma

“In the old romantic comedies, those of our childhoods, there was always the running scene, was there not? Through the crowd. Dashing, not a moment to spare. To the choice that should’ve been clear as day. To destiny. When you know how the rest of your life should be lived, you want to start the rest of your life as soon as possible.

My destination, though—not a man, but my true and best self.”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility

“And when he found the poker, it all fell away from me. Everything. Every hope I had. Every naïve, stupid hope. I learned something in that moment; you're on your own in this world. No one is coming to save you. People don't suddenly change, say they're sorry and begin to treat you with respect. They are a jumble of hurt and pain and they will take it out on whomever they can. I had to save myself.”
― Evie Woods