Quotes About Survival

My left foot is severely damaged from TSS, and I'm probably going to have to amputate my left leg. I could be super depressed about it, but I have been given a second chance. I'm here, and I'm living.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

I once used a fork to comb my hair because there was a time when I didn't own a hairbrush.

There's only two choices when life goes wrong. You deal with it, or you check out, and, like 90% of people, I go for the former.

Forming communities - even and especially ones based on strong loyalties and allegiances - is in our DNA. It's what's kept us alive for millions of years.

Life comes forth for no other reason than to be and make more life. It will fight and crawl and do anything in its power to live, and once alive, it will stand against all to remain alive. Its existence is its own argument.

I could live in a community like 'Fortitude.'

I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day's very severe fighting and escaped unhurt.

I went for a walk in the Arctic Circle without map or compass. Fortunately, I was only lost for hours, not days.

Every time that we've ever fought, we fought to keep from bein' destroyed. We've never started a war.

I ended up moving downtown with these three dudes that I didn't really know. I came into the house, and I didn't realize how things worked. From, like, 15-18, I was just fighting them. I fought, like, every day, and these were, like, older dudes. It was every man for himself.

I fought from the time I was eight years old, sometimes three, four fights a night. We did it to eat, and we did it because we were just tough kids.

Every day, I feel like it's the day I was freed from Daesh. Every time I speak about my story, I feel like it's the day I was liberated.

'Cancer' is such a frightening word.

This is the land of getting over. The land of second or even third chances; the land of doing whatever you have to do by any means necessary in order to fulfill the American Dream.

All this could go tomorrow, and I would still know how to function, because I never had nothing before. I went through the struggle - it was a rough life.

I've learned how to function in chaos.

Change has to be fundamental to a company's culture, or there is no way it can survive.

I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.

Canada will bring us power for the future, Scandinavia the character, the steadiness…It's the grand concept for survival…a union of know-how, that's us, with power and character.

He carried that obsession with him always. And in the end, by its very wrongness, it saved his life.

Necessité fait gens méprendre Et faim saillir le loup du bois.