Quotes About Survival

And thus I left the island, the 19th of December, as I found by the ship's account, in the year 1686, after I had been upon it eight-and-twenty years, two months, and nineteen days;

when, indeed, one would have thought the very city itself was running out of the gates, and that there would be nobody left behind,—you may be sure from that hour all trade, except such as related to immediate subsistence, was, as it were, at a full stop.

In 1719—at the age of 59—Defoe turned his attention for the first time to an extended work of prose fiction, presenting his account of events of which he had no direct experience. Robinson Crusoe, the account of the shipwreck and survival of one man, became a great success, and Defoe turned his full attention to his lucrative writing career.

And here I must observe again, that this necessity of going out of our houses to buy provisions was in a great measure the ruin of the whole city

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.

The positive lens keeps the joy in practice and learning - the reason even the most seasoned athletes and performers still enjoy rehearsing their moves. You need the negative focus to survive, but a positive one to thrive. You need both, but in the right ratio.

You need the negative focus to survive, but a positive one to thrive

The debris that buried Steve saved his life as the plane's fuselage exploded

Un estudio evaluó el grado de optimismo o pesimismo de ciento veintidós hombres que habían sufrido un primer ataque cardíaco. Ocho años más tarde, veintiuno de los veinticinco más pesimistas habían muerto, mientras que sólo habían fallecido seis de los veinticinco más optimistas. Este

All the deaths are dead for nothing but you're not dead at all.

She spun the car through a right turn that would have killed us all had we been minor characters.

No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!

I see now that when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen, in corners and dark places.

Uma criança pode não saber como se alimentar, ou o que comer, mas ela conhece a fome.

when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen, in corners and dark places.

As when men to keep from being swept overboard in the storm clutch at each other's hands to resist being torn apart, so our bodies fused a link in the human chain that kept us from being swept into nothing.

ma criança pode não saber como se alimentar, ou o que comer, mas ela conhece a fome.

Dovevo combattere? Dargliela vinta? Soccombere al terzo mondo per sfuggire alle tragiche realtà che sono al di là della mia porta di acciaio? Ma vale la pena di vivere inghiottiti dal bidone della spazzatura che la società riserva alle menti disadattate?

The fear programme is designed to get us away from things that are likely to harm us. If we had to make an analogous claim about the purpose of the happiness system, we would be most likely to say that it is there to keep us moving towards things that are likely to be good for us in some appropriate biological sense--mating, good food, pleasant environment--and away from things that are bad for us.

A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his last strength, he waved frantically and called for help. Someone on board peered at him scornfully and shouted back, Get a boat!

Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive almost anything short of a global catastrophe.

You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.

The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.