Quotes About Survival

The explanation given to any relation can survive and develop within a given society only if this explanation is stylized in conformity with the prevailing thought style.

Better a gringo than a dead man," the lieutenant sighed, smoke escaping his nostrils. "Barely! But, yes, hell yes.

Dead in Their Tracks by John Annerino

the world on all sides is bankrupt and that life is a business that does not cover the costs.

Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings.

The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.

I may be empty inside, hollowed and devoured by Oxana, and I may be alone and beyond redemption, but I will not be broken. Fuck them all. I will not be broken.

Human beings are the planets way of committing suicide.

Those who are in pain – most of the world's populations at any given moment – do not do a lot of thinking, speaking, or writing about suffering. All their energy goes into surviving. That is why a lot of what is said and written about suffering seems hollow to those actually in pain.

Monique Faison Ross shares with us her engaging, powerful, and ultimately shocking story of brutal intimate violence. Her survival, her strength, and her wisdom are an inspiration and a lesson to us all. This is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to hear what the targets of domestic violence are trying to tell us, told in a way that will keep you turning the pages."-- Lundy Bancroft, author of Why Does He Do That? and The Joyous Recovery

Somebody had to die in order that somebody else can go on living.

it seems like a disaster, but somehow it all comes together at the last minute, and you make it through.

We survive by controlling our environment, and control is made possible by information. So lack of information quickly breeds insecurity and a situation in which any information is regarded as better than none.

It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.

True love survives all shocks: an affection originally produced by admiration for unusual beauty may not only survive the loss of that beauty, but may become more intense if the beauty has changed into ugliness through causes that bind the lovers together in tender associations.

Victory is no longer a truth. It is only a word to describe who is left alive in the ruins

Many deeply hidden memories have come flooding back. The important message here though is that it is possible to heal and survive. Everyone has survived their own kind of emotional or mental trauma. We all have our inner fears and misreplaced feelings of guilt.

Still clutching each other by the arm, they turned to watch the last stones plummet over the edge. "I don't know how many times a day I can stand to watch you almost die," Seregil gasped. "Twice is my limit," croaked Alec, sinking to his knees.

The Dalai Lama teaches that the self lies somewhere beyond our bodies and our minds. He preaches that human nature is essentially good. Only the affection of a mother allows a child to survive. Only the baby's affection for his mother drives him to feed from her breast. This shows, the Dalai Lama explains, that we are born into compassion and sustained by it. So our essential nature is compassionate.

Only Tarzan managed to escape judgment, since he escaped from the courtroom during a brawl.

There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing.

All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.

SECRET #27 When the world gnaws on you day after day, there comes a day when they reach the bone and you just can't take it anymore.

Deke: 'You know what I'm wonderin'?' Malachi: 'No, and to tell the truth, I don't care' Deke: 'I'm wonderin' how you've managed to live to the ripe old age of 36, when it's a known fact that you've been brain-dead since birth' 'Strength of will', was the flat reply