Quotes About Survival

falcon swooped down and caught a young quail

sometimes you get to a point in your life where you don't know what you want to do tomorrow, you just know you want to be alive somewhere!

Wer für den Strick geboren ist, kann im Wasser nicht umkommen. (S.104)

Ich spreche nicht gern vom Tod, ich bin für Leben.

Whole branches of Judaism may wither and fall, but the trunk remains

Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.

Where has he gone, my meadow mouse, My thumb of a child that nuzzled in my palm? -- To run under the hawk's wing, Under the eye of the great owl watching from the elm-tree, To live by courtesy of the shrike, the snake, the tom-cat. (from The Meadow Mouse )

Un gato es el único animal que puede vivir como un parásito y conservar plenamente su capacidad de cuidar de sí mismo. Oímos hablar de perros perdidos, pero nunca de gatos perdidos. Los gatos no se pierden porque los gatos no son de niguna parte.

With our faith in our community of two or more, we can go anywhere.When the three roots of faith, practice, and community support have fed us deeply, then we will be solid both alone and in our relationships. We will not just survive; we will flourish. Often in our daily lives, we are just focused on survival. But fidelity is not a question of survival. It is one of vitality.

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

I've always been more interested in what happens after the bad thing has happened - the fallout of the bad thing, when people are already damaged. I'm less interested in seeing people when they're fine and following their journey to becoming damaged.

But if we keep doing politics the way we're doing politics, and we keep doing climate action the way we're doing climate action, we will not have a history that judges us because we, certainly as a civilization, won't be here.

Living in a jungle is not something easy; it's not something that you just adapt yourself to. And I think that in my case, I didn't want to adapt.

In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.

Sometimes, I feel like directors look at me and say, 'I want to put that boy in the jungle. I want to hurt him.'

An elephant is the king of the jungle for the simple reason a lion is only brave when there is loads of them.

I was homeless for almost a year and a half, just living in my car or bouncing around peoples' houses, going to 7-Eleven at the end of the day and asking them for the taquitos that they were going to throw out because I hadn't eaten in two days.

I'm just looking to get through the day.

This was just one of many times God has spared me.

I'm just one of the lucky people. I have no other reason for my longevity.

It took me a long time to write again because Katrina destroyed the home I loved, and that robbed me of hope.

I think my ability to joke and laugh about things is because I'm forced to. I've been through a lot of things in my life that, if I didn't make light of it, I would literally keel over.

We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.

I think that human beings were incredibly resilient; otherwise, we wouldn't keep going.