Quotes About Survival

Nothing will ever die so long as it knows what to do under the circumstances, in other words so long as it knows its business.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

All our lives long, every day and every hour, we are engaged in the process of accommodating our changed and unchanged selves to changed and unchanged surroundings: living, in fact, is nothing else than this process of accommodation; when we fail in it a little we are stupid, when flagrantly we are mad, when we give up the attempt altogether we die, when we suspend it temporarily we sleep.

When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped

Long as you're healthy, Bellona is great. But there's no doctors or nothing, you know?

And the owlet whoops to the wolf below,That eats the she-wolf's young.

I bit my arm, I sucked the blood,And cried, A sail! a sail!

i like the book my bloody life because it tell what gange related do and what makeks them feel bad

Only myopics judge people, relationships, businesses with short term lens. Any startup or public company that survived the dot com bust and 9/11 came out bigger than anyone imagined. If India wants an ecosystem like USA or China, new age companies need nurturing & patience vs. criticism or outcast.

Sailors will tell you that seasickness comes in two stages – in the first you think you're going to die and in the second you're very afraid you're not going to.

Be like the single blade of grass. For she too, has been trampled on, mowed down, and hit with such bitterly cold stretches that she had to shut down to survive. Yet still she stands upright with dignity, knowing that she endures, and still she dances with the wind.

I wouldn't have made it back if it weren't for you, Earwig. I just kept telling myself, every day, every hour, that I had to live through it to come home for you.

Stockholm syndrome, wherein people held in captivity begin to empathize and identify with their captors as a way of adapting to their situation. It is too incongruous to be in a relationship with someone whose thinking and behavior are disturbing. Something has to line up, so women accept the pathological thinking and behavior to eliminate the disturbance they feel.

The dirty beetles had perished, and their paper armor drifted in the streets.

There's a saying in medicine that no one is dead until they are warm and dead.

According to the American Heart Association, for every minute that goes by without someone attempting CPR or defibrillation, the odds of survival decrease by 7 to 10 percent. 8 If ten minutes go by, survival is a long shot.

When a heart breaks it makes no noise. There are no outward signs, no rash, no bruising. Only a strange calmness that takes over when there are no more tears to shed and no more voice left to howl one's greed into the silence and the resignation that numbs one's senses like a drug, for how else would one be able to go on? People survive in spite of themselves.

When you have to fight for an existence, fighting can become an existence.

a baby forest smothered in its bed.....

Children survived, if they had half a chance. Children who could form attachments survived best.

The more that is taken away, the more clearly will thou see what is left behind.

Being the survivor stinks.