Quotes About Survival

Michael," she said, her voice raspy. "It's time to let go." "I can't." Tolland's eyes welled. "You're a survivor," Celia said. "You have to be. Promise me you'll find another love." "I'll never want another." Tolland meant it. "You'll have

When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere … the world will purge itself.

every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the world will purge itself.' 

Some must die that others may live.

La negación es parte fundamental del mecanismo de supervivencia humana. Sin ella, despertaríamos cada mañana aterrorizados, pensando en las innumerables formas en que podríamos morir. En cambio, nuestra mente bloquea esos miedos existenciales centrándose solo en las tensiones que puede afrontar, como llegar al trabajo a tiempo o pagar los impuestos.

Sans compétence, la bravoure était suicidaire. Il y avait des règles de survie à respecter. Des règles ancestrales.

When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the world will purge itself.

La mente bloquea nuestros miedos existenciales y se centra en cuestiones que podamos afrontar, como llegar a tiempo al trabajo o pagar nuestros impuestos. Para sobrevivir, nos deshacemos de los miedos existenciales tan rápido como podemos, y dedicamos la atención a tareas simples y trivialidades diarias.

Anthropological data clearly showed that cultures practicing religions historically had outlived nonreligious cultures.

Are poor recruiting practices less consequential to the fate of a corporation? Clearly, every business is only as good as the people it brings into the organization. No function is more important to the ultimate survival of the company than human resources.

you fear death and crave survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this 'mind' or 'spirit' or 'soul,' you find the escape clause in your contract with mortality.

Even a dark purpose can keep a man alive.

People from all walks of life share an innate drive for meaning, direction, and purpose. This drive to understand our life purpose seems as important to our psychological growth as eating is to our biological survival.

What good to conquer an enemy in battle, only to be vanquished by hunger or cold?

But managing your money does not depend upon becoming wealthy or declaring vows of poverty. Rather, it is about creating stability and sufficiency—a balanced flow of monetary energy through your life. This kind of management liberates you from survival issues, so that money concerns no longer occupy your mind or monopolize your attention.

We are social animals and any honest assessment of how sex actually functions in our lives would lead us to conclude that while its original purpose was purely reproductive, we long ago—eons ago—repurposed it in ways that conferred evolutionary advantages that weren't solely about passing on our genes. You were likelier to survive and your offspring were likelier to survive if you were liked, and you were likelier to be liked if you gave good head.

The universe is indifferent to our fates. This was the crushing burden that the character took with him as he struggled through the surf toward survival or extinction. The universe just does not give a shit.

The Ice Master was too injured and too exhausted to crawl any farther. Let whatever was going to happen to him happen now and may a Sailor's God fuck to Hell this fucking thing that was going to eat him.

evolution is not progress, that there is no 'goal' or direction to evolution. Evolution is change. Evolution 'succeeds' if that change best adapts some leaf or branch of its tree of life to conditions of the universe.

Odd how the daily imperatives persist even in the face of collective disaster.

Thus evolved some members of the Core—not altruists, but desperate survivalists who realized that the only way ultimately to win their never-ending zero-sum game was to stop the game. And to stop the game they needed to evolve into a species capable of empathy.

it had long been accepted that if a species put mankind on its food-chain menu the species would be extinct before long.

We've been stuck in one species since our Cro-Magnon ancestors helped to wipe out the smarter Neanderthals," she said. "Now it's our chance to diversify rapidly, and institutions like the Hegemony, the Pax, and the Core are stopping it.

And then Robinson Crusoe stripped naked, swam out to his ship, filled his pockets with biscuits, and swam back to shore.... What? I said, hefting my pack and frowning at the child. Nothing, she said, getting to her feet. Just an old preHegira book that Uncle Martin used to read to me. He used to say that proofreaders have always been incompetent assholes-even 1400 years ago.