Quotes About Survival

astrophysicist Christopher McKay puts it: "The single non-negotiable thing life requires is water.

Everybody manages one way or another; everyone who is alive and reading this book has managed.

Only those who have learned to live on the land will find sanctuary

People get over love. They can live without it, they can move on. Love can be lost and found again. But that won't happen for me. I won't survive you, Eva.

As a child, I survived by forgetting. Later, the amnesia became a problem as large as the one it was meant to conceal. However, I did not remember my past until the homemade bomb was defused, until the evil was contained, until I was stable enough and happy enough that sorrow or anger or regret or pain was overwhelmed by joy at my release. To reach this state, I needed the help of friends and healers. This I had in abundance. (252)

What makes this danger so terrible is that humans tip the balance of your world. No other species can make such a difference, for good or ill. If humans can live in harmony with other forms of life, the world rejoices. If not, the world suffers--and may not survive.

Yet we have gone on living,Living and partly living.

Think about it this way: if you are too predictable in any area of your life, you may be paving the way to your own extinction!

Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude

Our instincts may have even guided us to hide parts of ourselves in order to keep them alive when we were younger.

When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.

I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord (Psalm 118:17).

Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.

Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat.

Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.

We were never taught how to give up hope, and this is why today we perish in gas chambers.

We said that there is no crime that a man will not commit in order to save himself. And, having saved himself, he will commit crimes for increasingly trivial reasons; he will commit them first out of duty, then from habit, and finally -for pleasure.

It is not our fault that the world is bad, and we do not want to die changing it. We want to live- that is all.

We are only bits of protein in a cruel universe of silica and fire.

Paj?k zje?d?a na niewidocznej nici spod sufitu. Schud? biedak, zmizernia?, bo much coraz mniej. Wspó??yje tak ze mn? od wiosny. U?atwi?em mu swego czasu polowania. Zaprzyja?nili?my si? z konieczno?ci. On czemu? nie ma kolegów, a moi wyekspirowali.

The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.

You saved my life. You must let me thank you with a gift." "I could just as well say you saved mine. Neither of us would have survived without the other." "Then you owe me a gift as well. I will give you Apple Valley. What will you give me?

Sadako's death, ten years after the Hiroshima bombing, was caused by radiation exposure.