Quotes About Survival

We are fundamentally social creatures whose survival and well-being depend on our interactions with particular, embodied, others.

decline, downsizing, near death, desperation, bet the company, and revival that characterizes so many corporate histories (such as Nokia, IBM, Procter & Gamble, and many others).

Organizations have habits. And they will cling to their habits at the expense sometimes of their own survival.

Not when she was trapped inside these walls. It was a prison she'd made for herself—to keep safe. Only she didn't feel safe. Or alive.

He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.

the worker works to live. What he earns goes into keeping his family alive, and so he passes the

No one has gone through life without acquiring scars and bruises. Some wounds are hidden inside us and only we can feel. They are badges of our day-to-day struggle to learn and survive. RJ Intindola – 1981

An die Kälte kann der Mensch sich nicht gewöhnen.

Fear of rejection can trigger deep fears within us, because as humans we have evolved to live in groups for our survival and in the distant past, exclusion from the group might have meant annihilation and death.

Stay away from the Zombies.

The only heroic act one can fucking well pull out of the bag in a situation like that is to get on with life and derive some joy from the very simple pleasure of remaining alive, despite every attempt being made to kill you.

He tried to turn me into a buffet?" I gritted my teeth. "Before he killed me? He couldn't kill me first and then eat me? That's just fucking rude.

Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at their uniqueness and glory. But eventually they are gone, brown, crumbling, scattered on the wind. But the tree remains. The tree is what is important. The tree lives on. That was a difficult knowledge to bear, and an even more difficult life to live. Of course, being the leaf wasn't exactly desirable either.

Alone: it was no way to live and it was no way to die.

in a world of monsters, you had to be a ghost to survive.

If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay.

Kibbo Kift, an organisation which taught young men outdoor survival skills with a neo-pagan twist.

the days when Cody and the troopers of the Fifth Cavalry rode hell-for-leather across the prairie in pursuit of hostile Indians. Nor, though it is not usually considered a milestone in American history, should we forget Joseph F. Glidden's 1874 invention of barbed wire, which, more than the rifle or the plow, transformed Buffalo Bill's Great Plains by insuring the survival of thousands of family farms, and making possible the

fighting for their existence." Deloria also notes that

As a result of this dependency, every child's greatest fear is abandonment. To children, abandonment means death. Second

I define masculinity as that part of a man that equips him to survive as an individual, clan, and species. Without this masculine energy we would have all become extinct eons ago. Masculinity empowers a man to create and produce. It also empowers him provide for and protect those who are important to him.

The progression from perfect little boy to Nice Guy basically occurs in three stages: abandonment, internalization of toxic shame, and the creation of survival mechanisms.

To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.

The ability to keep going even when things look bleak, when you feel beaten, and to fight off the sense of loss and despair. Whatever the reason. The will to survive might just get you through a disaster that claims scores of other lives.