Quotes About Survival

Dissociation gets you through a brutal experience, letting your basic survival skills operate unimpeded…Your ability to survive is enhanced as the ability to feel is diminished…All feeling are blocked; you 'go away.' You are disconnected from the act, the perpetrator & yourself…Viewing the scene from up above or some other out-of-body perspective is common among sexual abuse survivors.

Dissociation, a form of hypnotic trance, helps children survive the abuse…The abuse takes on a dream-like, surreal quality and deadened feelings and altered perceptions add to the strangeness. The whole scene does not fit into the 'real world.' It is simple to forget, easy to believe nothing happened.

So far it has been sex and leaves that keep me alive

Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. ~ Bruce Lee

Polypharmacology and curmudgeonliness were keeping her alive.

Every man alive is half idiot & half hero. Only heroes could survive in this maelstrom & only idiots would want to.

He'll listen to me because he has to, or fire me, and he can't fire me because then he would never do any work at all and would eventually starve to death.

It takes a gross of at least ten thousand a month to get by.

A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens--second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.

The only way to survive in a community where movement was the norm and material accumulation impractical was to maintain a strong sense on tribal solidarity by evenly sharing all available resources.

Her children by herself after twenty years of an abusive.

THE GIFT OF HEALTH IS KEEPING ME ALIVE.

that a time of stress and tragedy takes away all but the will to survive.

All is well. We are tested and we survive, and life will be good again.

survived." Her grandmother gave a sad little smile. "Most of us survive the hardest things. We are quite resilient.

If you're worried about your very life, the last thing you want is small talk.

this sweet and kind woman how it felt to have lost my baby. "Don't look so sad," she said, touching my cheek. "All is well. We are tested and we survive, and life will be good again.

Most of us survive the hardest things. We are quite resilient.

Like a fox being chased by the hounds, she needed a bolthole in which to lick her wounds.

Druids always pick the hard way; it encourages natural selection.

I had three ribs stoved in once in Outremer, so I knew what was going on. I recognised the sound, and the particular sort of pain, and the not quite being able to breathe. Mostly I remember thinking: it won't hurt, because any moment now I'll be dead. Bizarrely reassuring, as if I was cheating, getting away with it. Cheating twice; once by staying alive, once by dying. This man is morally bankrupt.

When I was in Outremer, I got shot in the face with an arrow. Should've killed me instantly; but by some miracle it hung up in my cheekbone, and an enemy doctor we'd captured the day before yanked it out with a pair of tongs. You should be dead, they said to me, like I'd deliberately cheated. No moral fibre.

It isn't all omen, Wood. Tarot teaches us to see beyond surface effects. The falling man- While the Tower was a stronghold built to protect him, it has become a place of isolation, a prison from which the lightning has freed him. He's falling, but he hasn't landed. His future is unknown. If he survives, he will no longer dwell in the clouds. He will be part of the world.