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Quotes About Survival

Life gets easier when you stop seeing yourself as victim but yet see yourself as a soldier whose survived the battles of everyday life.
~ Unknown
Life will never be some happily-ever-after Disney movie. sh.. happens.
~ Unknown
I've been told that life isn't worth living. People tease you. That's going to happen in life. If you think that your life is horrible, what about those who's parents beat them? Starve them? What about those who have never had a real life, other than on the street? Your life isn't that bad.
~ Unknown
We care for so many unnecessary little things in comparison to those who just want to live one more day.
~ Unknown
From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, I survived.
~ Unknown
Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.
~ Lisa Kleypas
The problem with the Gene pool is there arn't any lifeguards.
~ Unknown
Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
~ Joseph Brodsky
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
~ Jimmy Carter
Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.
~ Jonas Salk
The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Any ordeal that you can survive as a human being is an improvement in your character, and usually an improvement in your life.
~ Viggo Mortensen
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
~ Bill Cosby
My goal in life is to survive. Everything else is just a bonus.
~ Unknown
He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
~ Unknown
Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.
~ Tom Stoppard
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
~ Aristotle
I bear a charmed life.
~ William Shakespeare
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
~ Winston Churchill
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
~ Quentin Crisp
Life is an incurable Disease
~ Abraham Cowley
Unless there is a vast alteration in manís civilization as it stumbles along today,man will not be here very long.
~ L Ron Hubbard
I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same as 'making a life'.
~ Maya Angelou