Quotes About Survival

War means desperation, and desperation is our mother's milk, kid.

Who had time for morals in a world like this?

Get out. I'll send a bill with a drone. If you survive, I expect it to be paid.

We exist to be killed," Kaladin said. He blinked, glancing at the other few members of Bridge Four sitting apathetically in the rain. "If we're not dead already.

This is nice. Very roomy for a shack on a mountainside in the middle of a deadly jungle on an isolated island surrounded by monsters.

Kaladin no había sabido, al criarse en el remoto Piedralar, lo afortunado que era su pueblo al haber evitado la batalla. El mundo entero guerreaba

But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.

Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

Pain is unrelenting. It will get our attention. Despite our attempts to drown it in addiction, to physically beat it out of one another, to suffocate it with success and material trappings, or to strangle it with our hate, pain will find a way to make itself known.

Finding someone to put down, judge, or criticize becomes a way to get out of the web or call attention away from our box. If you're doing worse than I am at something, I think, my chances of surviving are better.

To know you can navigate the wilderness on your own—to know that you can stay true to your beliefs, trust yourself, and survive it—that is true belonging.

Shame is so painful for children because it is inextricably linked to the fear of being unlovable. For young children who are still dependent on their parents for survival—for food, shelter, and safety—feeling unlovable is a threat to survival. It's trauma.

Scarcity culture may keep us afraid of living small, ordinary lives, but when you talk to people who have survived great losses, it is clear that joy is not a constant.

we've survived and are surviving events that have torn at our sense of safety with such force that we've experienced them as trauma even if we weren't directly involved.

We know how to chameleon our way through the day

We need hope like we need air.

And the vulnerability doesn't go away even if we're trained and experienced in offering and getting feedback. Experience does, however, give us the advantage of knowing that we can survive the exposure and uncertainty, and that it's worth the risk.

Our fight or flight strategies are effective for survival, not for reasoning or connection

Desperate times call for desperate measures, and desperate measures are often fertilized with bullshit.

The animals who play with the most abandon are the predators." "But surely prey are almost never safe enough to play.

No quería tener ninguna debilidad. En aquel lugar sólo sobrevivían los fuertes.

I cling to this because to hope for this earth to go on after we're gone is the only kind of love left– the last good human piece of us.

In the absence of data, we will always make up stories. In fact, the need to make up a story, especially when we are hurt, is part of our most primitive survival wiring. Mean making is in our biology, and our default is often to come up with a story that makes sense, feels familiar, and offers us insight into how best to self-protect.

I've had some mighty mean moments afore I kem to this spot,-- Lost on the plains in '50, drowned almost, and shot; But out on this alkali desert, a hunting a crazy wife, Was ra'ly as on-satis-factory as anything in my life.