Quotes About Survival

Another survivor of Bergen-Belsen, a young girl who knew Anne, commented, "There it took superhuman effort to remain alive. Typhus and debilitation-well, yes. But I feel certain that Anne died of her sister's death. Dying is so frightfully easy for anyone left alone in a concentration camp.

Some things I can never forget. I must not. Otherwise what do I have left?

The loss of so many ancient books could be blamed on something more than the apathy of feudal lords and the negligence and greed of unscrupulous monks. It could be blamed, too, on circumstances beyond the inevitable and indiscriminate destruction of floods and fires, or the pernicious appetites of mice, warble flies, and bookworms. All these things played their part, but there was another reason so few texts survived, and that was technology: how books were made.

Life is like a seesaw, a game where the movement and the excitement come from a balance of opposites, because it will always inevitably be full of paradox. I believe that the key to progress and even to survival in life and work is to be aware that contradictions can coexist, and to learn to live with them.

the love of God is the kind of love that identifies with the powerless; the kind of love that appeals to nothing but its own integrity, that doesn't seek to force or batter its way through. It lives, it survives, it 'wins' simply by being itself. On the cross, God's love just is what it is and it's valid and world-changing and earth-shattering, even though at that moment what it means in the world's terms is failure, terror and death.

Fisken kom først. Mennesket er bare en seiglivet gjest ved havet.

Out of 2,339 children received into London workhouses in the five years after 1750, only 168 were alive in 1755.

Cada dia é um peso, é preciso matar o tempo, descobrir um jeito de não pensar, pois o pensamento dói, e vem uma vontade de beber, uma vontade de esquecer, uma vontade de morrer...

Eu estou onde estou porque todos os meus planos deram errado". Isso é absolutamente verdadeiro. As pontes que construía para chegar aonde eu queria ruíam uma após a outra. Eu era então obrigado a procurar caminhos não pensados. E aconteceu, por vezes, que nem mesmo segui, por vontade própria, os caminhos alternativos à minha frente. Escorreguei. A vida me empurrou. Fui literalmente obrigado a fazer o que não queria.

when we perceive danger, adrenaline shoots into us but because we can't kill a traffic warden or eat an estate agent, the juice never comes back down. We're in a constant state of red light alert, like a car siren that drives you nuts. Because

Being on automatic pilot, multitasking and using past or future thinking are all techniques for ensuring survival, but they can also be at the heart of our unhappiness.

Unfortunately our old reptilian brain didn't get absorbed, it's still in there squashed with the newer models, like a relative you can't get rid of. This ancient brain, developed about 400 million years ago, is called the brain stem; it is the 'duh' part of the brain. It prompts us to mate, kill and eat, which is perfect if you're living in a field or working at Goldman Sachs.

Are you alive, do you still exist?

Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky;And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.

Is there anything in the jungle too little to be killed?

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

There's a certain detachment sensitive people must maintain to endure the harsh realities of this world.

I thought when love for you died, I should die. It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.

It's safer in the jungle than in the town.

in order to survive anywhere in today's world, you need to have a pretty good sense of humour.

Remember, they lived in the drainpipes, too.