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2aa7a17 "We'll never survive!" "Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has." humor optimism survival William Goldman
4698d51 What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer. dying humor survival Douglas Adams
c5b9e0c Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive. survival Cassandra Clare
a94abfe No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't. survival Stephen King
0958e2b I told her once I wasn't good at anything. She told me survival is a talent. survival susanna-kaysen talent Susanna Kaysen
1e483bf We each survive in our own way. survival throne-of-glass Sarah J. Maas
59f2c93 All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive. madness survival Yann Martel
b633500 and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive fear poem silence speaking-of survival survivors Audre Lorde
29bc2bc You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in... life survival Nick Hornby
8bdff97 Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way. strength strength-through-adversity survival Betty Smith
2c1cf0c Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. extinction science survival Carl Sagan
8fa6ea9 The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under! strong survival weak Anne Frank
df61577 I survived, but it's not a happy ending. life survival Tim O'Brien
869913f They had survived, when so many had not. And no one else could understand what it was like to bear it, unless they had lost as much. survival Sarah J. Maas
8b5b625 Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it. harry-dresden survival Jim Butcher
cdb28ac As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws. history survival Elizabeth Kostova
a218512 ...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind.... That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going. energy life love persistence survival Kevin Brockmeier
13c83ae Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember? attitude enduring inspirational survival Gregory Peck
d4ed014 "If quick, I survive. survival Sun Tzu
8792d4f "Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease. I want to leave a mark. But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you think, "They'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion. ... We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can't stop pissing on fire hydrants. I know it's silly and useless--epically useless in my current state--but I am an animal like any other. Hazel is different. She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. Hazel knows the truth: We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either. People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm. The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox. ... But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar. ... What else? She is so beautiful. You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers." beautiful choices death disease dogs dying eulogy fire-hydrant hurt legacy love making-a-difference scars survival John Green
b123905 Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving? happiness life optimism struggle survival Tom Stoppard
6f409ee Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails. survival Dave Pelzer
544ffb6 We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in 's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth. earth environment frost nature poem poetry preservation robert-frost survival Rachel Carson
d708ea6 In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . . ben dystopia king life man network richard richards running stephen survival Stephen King
250bac2 I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar to Kerrick. It must be a survival tactic. If Allyn hadn't looked so sweet, we would have killed him while he slept. He had been pure evil when he was awake--similar to Kerrick. appearances brothers humor innocence sleep survival Maria V. Snyder
1426541 "what you were will not happen again. survival Charles Bukowski
4358835 "Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites." selfish survival Rachel Caine
9a5e647 Don't play his game. Play yours. claire-danvers domestic-violence morganville-vampires stalker stalking survival surviving Rachel Caine
ecbf168 The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generations. . . . A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive--and nowhere else!--and must correctly describe the hierarchy of survival, note the motivations at each level, and resolve all conflicts. We have such a theory now; we can solve any moral problem, on any level. Self-interest, love of family, duty to country, responsibility toward the human race . . . . The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual. moral morality survival survival-instinct Robert A. Heinlein
a5cb4d1 It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive. imagine messages survival survive Joan Didion
e5fbc4e Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself? cormac-mccarthy morality selfishness survival the-road Cormac McCarthy
7c4ccac Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages. bad-things-happen survival survive James A. Owen
b73b4b9 Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it.... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. learning life survival winning Orson Scott Card
c2c18ab Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency evacuations, the most prominent factor influencing survival was gender (followed closely by proximity to exit). Adult males were by far the most likely to get out alive. Why? Presumably because they pushed everyone else out of the way. survival Mary Roach
a52fd44 All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. survival Charles Dickens
48df226 Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy. classic-quotes faith grace hope ignorance inspiration marvelousmonday-quotes mercy nanowrimo national-novel-writing-month peace peacism quotes-by-famous-authors quotes-by-famous-poets silver souls spirituality stars survival terrorism the-soul war world-suicide-prevention-day Aberjhani
1c0b820 If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for granted an impoverished environment - is a source of dismay. There is, indeed, a fire burning over the earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills and visionary wisdom. Quelling this flame, and re-inventing the poetry of diversity is perhaps the most importent challenge of our times. culture diversity survival Wade Davis
f3a79fd Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo. culture david-marbury-lewis evolve future misattributed past survival Wade Davis
e17119d And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats. survival James Clavell
9863d6c Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches of terror and loss. They have a certain quality which it would not be accurate to describe as callousness or indifference. It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now. A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass. human resiliency richard-adams survival watership-down Richard Adams
505a8e5 For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn't thinking about survival. survival Christine Feehan
a12f7ea Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart. healing love love-heals mystical-passion passion passionate-love rebirth recovery romance survival twin-flames Aberjhani
859b4d1 Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival. logic survival Frank Herbert
992e377 If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk. ocean risk run running stand-back-up survival survive waves Terry Tempest Williams
da4edeb Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven't let her take away my will to somehow survive. hope survival Dave Pelzer
e484d22 This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold. classic-poems classic-quotes compassion faith grief healing-grief hope infinity inspiration inspiration-for-the-soul inspirational-quotes newtown-connecticut palaces pearls pearls-of-wisdom quotes-for-easter rebirth recovery recovery-from-grief resurrection roses savannah-authors-and-poets sorrow spiritual-transformation spirituality survival transformation Aberjhani
870d9f1 He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human. human-nature monsters ralph savages survival William Golding
949a6d9 Life is warped. I'm just in sync. honesty life survival Margaret Atwood
abb6333 "Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza. "Yes," he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end of the main mess-room table. "My survival." "So... your religion dies with you. How sad," Dorolow said, looking back from Horza to the screen. The Changer let the remark pass." changer death dorolow mess-room religion survival Iain M. Banks
e85ef76 l'lm w'lwn lkhyb@ wlkab@ l twjd ltHznn wltjrdn mn lqym@ wlkrm@, wnm wjdt ltzydn nDjan wSfan growing-up pain survival Hermann Hesse
d0e2c45 Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order. respect survival Tahir Shah
e0d4f63 No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz. death life survival Art Spiegelman
cbad4d6 In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those who decide to die? inspirational life people suicide survival writing Paulo Coelho
f83891e At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe. survival Michael Crichton
854adef She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived. survival G.K. Chesterton
54050d8 [...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive. life survival survivor Jonathan Safran Foer
5e799b7 DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though they have to hide in shame. DID develops as a response to extreme trauma that occurs at an early age and usually over an extended period of time. goal mental-health mental-illness mpd multiple-personality-disorder multiplicity response shame survival trauma Deborah Bray Haddock
062d07d "What do you call yourself?" the Fawn said at last. Such a soft sweet voice it had! "I wish I knew!" thought poor Alice. She answered, rather sadly, "Nothing, just now." "Think again," it said: "that won't do." Alice thought, but nothing came of it. "Please, would you tell me what you call yourself?" she said timidly, "I think that might help a little." "I'll tell you, if you'll come a little further on," the Fawn said. "I can't remember here." So they walked on together through the wood, Alice with her arms clasped lovingly round the soft neck of the Fawn, till they came out into another open field, and here the Fawn gave a sudden bound into the air, and shook itself free from Alice's arms. "I'm a Fawn!" it cried out in a voice of delight. "And dear me, you're a human child!" A sudden look of alarm came into its beautiful brown eyes, and in another moment it had darted away at full speed." danger deer fawn fear innocence instinct purity survival wonderland Lewis Carroll
2714d3c "Now observe that in all the propaganda of the ecologists--amidst all their appeals to nature and pleas for "harmony with nature"--there is no discussion of man's needs and the requirements of his survival. Man is treated as if he were an unnatural phenomenon. Man cannot survive in the kind of state of nature that the ecologists envision--i.e., on the level of sea urchins or polar bears.... In order to survive, man has to discover and produce everything he needs, which means that he has to alter his background and adapt it to his needs. Nature has not equipped him for adapting himself to his background in the manner of animals. From the most primitive cultures to the most advanced civilizations, man has had to manufacture things; his well-being depends on his success at production. The lowest human tribe cannot survive without that alleged source of pollution: fire. It is not merely symbolic that fire was the property of the gods which Prometheus brought to man. The ecologists are the new vultures swarming to extinguish that fire." manufacturing nature productivity survival Ayn Rand
efaee35 "In an infinite Universe anything can happen," said Ford, "Even survival. Strange but true." strange survival universe Douglas Adams
500d825 The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter growing-up growth hard haruki-murakami inspirational life strong survival survivor trees Haruki Murakami
75330de "Sorry Johnny." "Sorry for what " "For shouting at you. It's just that when I think about the future I keep panicking. It's like falling from the top of the stairs in the dark not knowing where I'll end up." He put his arm around my shoulders. "I understand. Life is precarious for most of us but more so for you. What you forget is what most of your friends see in you." "What's that " "The ability to beat the odds..." "And fall on my feet " He nodded. "I just hope that lasts." "It will Catkin it will. It wouldn't dare fail you." future hope survival Julia Golding
dd4df5b We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes. cost crime give-and-take good-and-evil humanity mankind price sin society survival triumph H. Rider Haggard
4a77a3b Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't. life survival Dick Francis
c3421ef " " she cried out. She would have a fresh bruise there by the time she went to sleep, somewhere out at sea. she told herself, Syrio stepped back. "You are dead now." Arya made a face. "You cheated," she said hotly. "You said left and you went right." "Just so. And now you are a dead girl." "But you " "My words lied. My eyes and my arm shouted out the truth, but you were not seeing." "I was so," Arya said. "I watched you every second!" "Watching is not seeing, dead girl. The water dancer sees. Come, put down the sword, it is time for listening now." fighting listening seeing survival training George R.R. Martin
363d843 Here is the world. It is not a safe place, but however frightening and bewildering life may become, we can survive our fears, grab them by the wolf 's tail as Peter did, and make peace with the world. fear peter-the-wolf safety survival survive Terry Tempest Williams
9609861 Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious. life-of-pi survival Yann Martel
808e8e8 Tina nods sagely and says yes and then something in Plautdietsch, probably something like heck yeah do we ever know what sad is. Sadness is what holds our bones in place. survival Miriam Toews
5601d41 The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly always a matter of conditioned reflexes. survival wipe-out Hunter S. Thompson
ef69e2c So now you know that, as dark as the depths of the sea may be, as dark as the night gets without a moon, it is not really true darkness. It's just waiting for light to return. There are places that are truly dark in this world, Ven, but this place here, this open stretch of sea where you are floating, is not one of them. It's not really dark here - it's just night. If you hang on and stay awake, in a short while the edges of the sky will start to turn gray, then pink, and the sun will rise, and there will be blue above and all around you again. hope light survival Elizabeth Haydon
229fe92 I don't even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, and she hadn't, things got narrow real quick. Like trying to wade a river, she thought. You take a wrong step and set your foot on a wobbly rock or in a drop-off and you're swept away, and all you can do then is try to survive. (83) decisions survival Ron Rash
0d94b88 Achilles might be a good papa to the family, but he was also a killer, and he never forgives. Poke knew that, though. Bean warned her, and she knew it, but she chose Achilles for their papa anyway. Chose him and then died for it. She was like that Jesus that Helga preached about in her kitchen while they ate. She died for her people. And Achilles, he was like God. He made people pay for their sins no matter what they did. The important thing is, stay on the good side of God. That's what Helga teaches, isn't it? Stay right with God. I'll stay right with Achilles. I'll honor my papa, that's for sure, so I can stay alive until I'm old enough to go out on my own. bean forgiveness god jesus metaphor murder poke survival Orson Scott Card
2a4a4d3 Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least a few people would survive and had wanted them to remember her city and the treasure it held, the treasure that was most valuable of all - herself, her family, and all of the generations of people who had lived in that secret place, their purpose, though they didn't know it, to make sure that human beings did not vanish from the world, no matter what happened above. inspirational survival Jeanne DuPrau
b3a591b Survival, it is called. Often it is accidental, sometimes it is engineered by creatures or forces that we have no conception of, always it is temporary. philosophy survival Wallace Stegner
d7beeac But for the overcrowded, for those who have little or nothing except, sometimes, courage and love, hope works differently. Hope is then something to bite on, to put between the teeth. Don't forget this. Be a realist. With hope between the teeth comes the strength to carry on even when fatigue never lets up, comes strength, when necessary, to choose not to shout at the wrong moment, comes the strength above all not to howl. A person, with hope between her or his teeth, is a brother or sister who commands respect. survival John Berger
b082bbb Given the choice, a yeast cell's ideal state is to be diploid. But if it's in an environment with a lack of nutrients, you know what happens? The diploids break into haploids again. Solitary little haploids. Because, in a crisis, it's easier to survive as a single cell. survival Jeffrey Eugenides
b957959 But what were you supposed to do with that weight? Once it was on you? Just be a man? Just suck it up? Maybe you were. Maybe that was the real test. Maybe that is exactly the thing that made you a man: the ability to function with the worst possible secrets in your brain. Which was why so many grown-up men seemed so ridiculous. They never felt that responsibility. They were untested, unproven; they were boys in grown-up clothes. depression guilt killing man murder responsibility secret secrets survival Blake Nelson
3d59697 "Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard." inspirational survival Lisa Gardner
d10ab4e "Bellusdeo laughed. It was, for a moment, the only sound in the quiet of the fief's night, and it was warmer and deeper than the lingering night chill. When her laughter faded, she glanced at Kaylin. "I was not like this before. I thought that the Shadows had not touched me." She lowered her head a moment. Kaylin understood this, as well. "It seems so unfair," she finally said. "Life is unfair. Which part of it pains you?" "We suffer, and it breaks something. When we win free--by gaining our name, by crossing a bloody bridge--we still live in a cage of scars. If life were fair, we would never have suffered what we suffered at all; having suffered it and survived, we're still reacting to things that don't exist anymore." "But they did." "Yes. I hate that they still define me." Voice lower, she said to Bellusdeo, "I want that to change. I don't know how to change it. But I'm willing to spend the rest of my life trying." Shaking her head, she forced herself to smile; it was surprisingly easy. There was something about Bellusdeo that she liked. "Home is a strange thing." "What do you mean?" "We lose it, and we think it's gone forever. That's how I felt the first time I lost mine. It took me years to understand that I could find--and make--another. I couldn't do it on my own, though; I don't think--for me--home exists in isolation." family-values home kaylin-neya survival Michelle Sagara West
ed796bb Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away. death grief mourning pretending survival Julian Barnes
d4ce203 Colonization is the key to our race's survival. It's as simple as that. We must colonize or be closed off and contained by other races. colonization colonize contained key race races simple survival John Scalzi
294d71b The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body that man had made dependent on himself. survival Richard Matheson
3e3db17 I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon dioxide is real. Water is expensive. Bio-tech has created as many problems as it has fixed, but we're here, we're alive, we're the human race, we have survived wars and terrorism and scarcity and global famine, and we have made it back from the brink, not once but many times. History is not a suicide note - it's a record of our survival. humanity inspirational survival Jeanette Winterson
8113b75 He would have died soon, but more painfully. Anyway, it was Urban Bloodshed Limitation. First rule: limit bloodshed by making sure that none of your own gets spilled. fighting self-defense survival Margaret Atwood
2d9d85e Survival often demands our courage. life survival David Mitchell
97e41ab We lay there with our bodies touching, and as I shook, a powerful knowledge took hold. He had done this thing to me and I had lived. That was all. I was still breathing. I heard his heart. I smelled his breath. The dark earth around us smelled like what it was, moist dirt where animals lived their daily lives. I could have yelled for hours. rape survival Alice Sebold
2ddf6e0 "According to Melanie Klein, we develop moral responses in reaction to questions of survivability. My wager is that Klein is right about that, even as she thwarts her own insight by insisting that it is the ego's survivability that is finally at issue. Why the ego? After all, if my survivability depends on a relation to others, to a "you" or a set of "yous" without whom I cannot exist, then my existence is not mine alone, but is to be found outside myself, in this set of relations that precede and exceed the boundaries of who I am. If I have a boundary at all, or if a boundary can be said to belong to me, it is only because I have become separated from others, and it is only on condition of this separation that I can relate to them at all. So the boundary is a function of the relation, a brokering of difference, a negotiation in which I am bound to you in my separateness. If I seek to preserve your life, it is not only because I seek to preserve my own, but because who "I" am is nothing without your life, and life itself has to be rethought as this complex, passionate, antagonistic, and necessary set of relations to others. I may lose this "you" and any number of particular others, and I may well survive those losses. But that can happen only if I do not lose the possibility of any "you" at all. If I survive, it is only because my life is nothing without the life that exceeds me, that refers to some indexical you, without whom I cannot be." boundaries butler dissociation grief klein life loss morality otherness self-preservation seperation survival Judith Butler
a8809a1 People who live in the luxury of a steady paycheck and food in their bellies get too caught up in right and wrong, moral and immoral, good and bad, heroes and villains, even truth and lies. As if we're all either one or the other. As if we all have a choice. As if I have a choice. But I don't believe in choices. I believe in survival. good-and-evil right-or-wrong survival Katie McGarry
e155f18 And in Kandahar he was taught about survival, about fighting and killing and hunting, and he learned much else without being taught, such as looking out for himself and watching his tongue and not saying the wrong thing, the thing that might get him killed. About the dignity of the lost, about losing, and how it cleansed the soul to accept defeat, and about letting go, avoiding the trap of holding on too tightly to what you wanted, and about abandonment in general, and in particular fatherlesness, the lessness of fathers, the lessness of the fatherless, and the best defenses of those who are less against those who are more: inwardness, forethought, cunning, humility and good peripheral vision. The many lessons of lessness. The lessening from which growing could begin. survival Salman Rushdie
a2fded6 It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it man survival Ernest Hemingway
1b8294e How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in matzos over my head. So how should a Jew feel? You are an angel of God, and the Rebbe, he should live and be well, the Rebbe made miracles and wonders for me. At night, I tell myself it is a dream and I am afraid to wake up. If it is a dream, better I should not wake up, better I should die in my sleep. matzos persecution survival torment Chaim Potok
2d42316 [...] and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive. survival true-love virgin-suicides Jeffrey Eugenides
6990427 I, personally, have resolved never to display weakness, to be always strong and firm and forthright, to show neither fear nor uncertainty-- no matter how fearful and uncertain I may be inside; I see no other way to survive this ordeal. may-dodd pioneers-jim-fergus survival Jim Fergus
a040044 But I also knew that if he turned away from me at this moment, somehow I would survive that, and I would find a way to flourish like the yard that still bloomed and grew around my family home. I'm Sookie Stackhouse. I belong here. flourishing survival surviving Charlaine Harris
81b645c We recognize that you've used substances to try to regain your lost balance, to try to feel the way you did before the need arose to use addictive drugs or alcohol. We know that you use substances to alter your mood, to cover up your sadness, to ease your heartbreak, to lighten your stress load, to blur your painful memories, to escape your hurtful reality, or to make your unbearable days or nights bearable. addiction-cure addiction-treatment-center alcohol-abuse chris-prentiss dependency drug-abuse heartache heartbreak holistic-health holistic-rehab holistic-therapy holistic-treatment holistic-treatment-center life live memories non-12-step pain passages-malibu passages-ventura pax-prentiss sadness substance-abuse survival Chris Prentiss
3c80b89 To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into? survival Anne Michaels
13c5794 Whatever doesn't destroy you, makes you stronger. Hardships have a way of toughening us, if they don't kill us. destroy hardships kill landry pearl-in-the-mist stronger survival tough v-c-andrews V.C. Andrews
efadb14 You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in, in the hope that you might be lucky, and the knife has actually been staunching the blood. You want to know the conventional medical wisdom? The conventional medical wisdom is that you keep the knife in. Really. life science survival wisdom Nick Hornby (Author)
447ce94 You are totally at the mercy of nature in this country, mate. It's just a fact of life. mother-nature survival Bill Bryson
17c965c It's not just the body that must survive a jail term: the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it. resilience spirit suffering survival willpower Gregory David Roberts
68d58f7 Those are my bougainvillea--I got Victoria to plant them today, but I don;t know if they will survive. But Right now they have the appearance of survival, which is almost the same thing. survival Zadie Smith
1b0aa9a Each of us is called upon to take a stand. So in these days ahead, as we examine ourselves and each other, our works, our fears, our differences, our sisterhood and survivals, I urge you to tackle what is most difficult for us all, self-scrutiny of our complacencies, the idea that since each of us believes she is on the side of right, she need not examine her position. differences inspirational position sisterhood social-justice survival Audre Lorde
90943c5 Life outside is changing our world. We are losing our culture, loosing our roots. How can a living thing grow if its roots are cut? survival Sherry Shahan
156255f Therefore, men of Polynesia and Boston and China and Mount Fuji and the barrios of the Philippines, do not come to these islands empty-handed, or craven in spirit, or afraid to starve. There is no food here. In these islands there is no certainty. Bring your own food, your own gods, your own flowers and fruits and concepts. For if you come without resources to these islands you will perish... On these harsh terms the islands waited. survival James A. Michener
36e55f7 Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust; Fear not the things thou suffer must; For, whom he loves he doth chastise, And then all tears wipes from their eyes. William Bradford Plymouth Colony Governor colony governor indians mayflower pilgrim puritan religion survival Nathaniel Philbrick
82b8ced There seemed no answer. He wasn't resigned to anything, he hadn't accepted or adjusted to the life he'd been forced into. Yet here he was, eight months after the plague's last victim, nine since he's spoken to another human being, ten since Virginia had died. Here he was with no future and a virtually hopeless present. Still plodding on. Instinct? Or was he just stupid? Too unimaginative to destroy himself? Why hadn't he done it in the beginning when he was in the very depths? What had impelled him to enclose the house, install a freezer, a generator, an electric stove, a water tank, build a hothouse, a workbench, burn down the houses on each side of his, collect records and books and mountains of canned supplies, even - it was fantastic when you thought about it - even put a fancy mural on the wall? Was the life force something more than words, a tangible, mind-controlling potency? Was nature somehow, in him, maintaining its spark against its own encroachments? He closed his eyes. Why think, why reason? There was no answer. His continuance was an accident and an attendant bovinity. He was just too dumb to end it all, and that was about the size of it. instinct life life-force meaning-of-life nature purpose reasoning suicide survival survive thought Richard Matheson
2acd00e Because courage, survival, love--all these things didn't live in one man. They lived in them all or they died and every man with them; they had come to believe that to abandon one man was to abandon themselves. love survival Richard Flanagan
0b016c6 You had to make your choice between survival and efficiency, though in the long run survival was optimum efficiency, no matter how much time and effort it took. survival Philip José Farmer
b67c189 I watched the sky as it turned from silver to grey to the colour of rain. Even the clouds tried to look the other way. fear nazis survival wwii Markus Zusak
04b8bba "For the first time the Don showed annoyance. He poured another glass of anisette and drank it down. He pointed a finger at his son. "You want to learn," he said. "Now listen to me. A man's first duty is to keep himself alive. Then comes what everyone else calls honor. This dishonor, as you call it, I willingly take upon myself. I did it to save your life as you once took on dishonor to save mine. You would have never left Sicily alive without Don Croce's protection. So be it. Do you want to be a hero like Guiliano, a legend? And dead? I love him as the son of my dear friends, but I do not envy him his fame. You are alive and he is dead. Always remember that and live your life not be be a hero but to remain alive. With time, heroes seem a little foolish." Michael sighed. "Guiliano had no choice," he said. "We are more fortunate," the Don said. It was the first lesson Michael received from his father and the one he learned best. It was to color his future life, persuade him to make terrible decisions he could never have dreamed of making before. It changed his perception of honor and heroism. It helped him survive, but it made him unhappy. For despite the fact that his father did not envy Guiliano, Michael did." -- honor inevitability mafia michael-corleone survival the-godfather the-sicilian vito-corleone Mario Puzo
db1140c A law of survival, Ragle had said. Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish . . . version of a timeless rule. survival Philip K. Dick
4fdec62 I knew the point wasn't the victory, but pulling yourself together and crawling your way back. That was life. survival Chloe Neill
00cc584 She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked. grace gracias servants survival thanks Barbara Kingsolver
b846a9b If you want to live, it's good to be friendly. survival Art Spiegelman
b4ab0f9 It's just something I'll have to live with... The possibility of getting sick. Not knowing if I'll live another two years or forty years. I keep telling myself, I could walk outside and get hit by a bus. That's the way life is. Just surviving another day comes with its own risk. risk survival Tess Gerritsen
2ff2b05 The homes of so many skeletons. People who used to fight over the last blueberry muffin at the breakfast table, get down on their knees to scrub bathroom floors, and kiss one another good night, thinking they were at least relatively safe. Now they are just dust in the debris. survival Francesca Lia Block
7344765 My grandfather often felt frustrated or baffled by my grandmother's illness, but when it came to the origins of the Skinless Horse he thought he understood. The Skinless Horse was a creature sworn to pursue my grandmother no matter where she went on the face of the globe, whispering to her in the foulest terms of her crimes and the blackness of her soul. There was a voice like that in everyone's head, he figured; in my grandmother's case it was just a matter of degree. You could almost see the Skinless Horse as a clever adapation, a strategy for survival evolved by a proven survivor. If you kept the voice inside your head, the way most people did, there could really be only one way to silence it. He admired the defiance, the refusal to surrender, involuntary but implicit in the act of moving that reproachful whisperer to a shadowy corner of a room, an iron furnace in a cellar, the branches of a grand old tree. mental-illness moonglow strength survival Michael Chabon
c54ad9f The spirit and soul are the body and brain, which are destructible-that is precisely why they are so precious. inspirational inspirational-quotes life life-lessons living people-of-color security soul soul-searching spirit survival surviving-life thoughtful thoughts wisdom wise-words Ta-Nehisi Coates
a3918e5 They had taken to the movement unlike anything he had ever seen, and he thought that should this venture of the Jews prove successful, the new state would be filled with dancers and musicians, but especially dancers, for dancing like nothing else says: I am still alive. music survival Mark Helprin
3102339 He fought for his very survival. If he fought dirty sometimes that does not diminish the fact that he refused to give up. survival Nancy Milford
9c6cedc I still carry the weight of being a rape survivor, and of the demand that I forgive and forget to uphold the myth of the perfect black family. I carry the weight handed to me by the Black moral majority, who ignored my father's crimes and who knows how many other men's, who tried to buy off a terrified thirteen year old with a one-day trip to an amusement park. They were so desperate to project the image of the respectable, righteous, picture-perfect Black family to the world that they were willing to let women and girls in the picture suffer. rape-culture rape-survivor survival Roxane Gay
8926cac Still, as I tend to repeat, I have some instinct for survival, for self-preservation. And believing you have such an instinct is almost as good as actually having it, because it means you act in the same way. belief julian-barnes self-preservation survival survival-instinct the-sense-of-an-ending Julian Barnes
68bd543 How many close encounters with death can one person survive? At the age of 21, I had surpassed more than 10 such close encounters with death, which began when I was but 5 years of age. This enemy who has been hotly pursuing me for more than 16 years has no shame to his game at all. At least with me there were certain things I would've never done, and knowingly hurt a child was just one of them. death enemy hot-pursuit near-misses principles street-code survival Drexel Deal
4521847 Charlotte Evans was used to feeling grungy. As a freelancer, she traveled on a shoestring, getting stories other writers did not, precisely because she wasn't fussy about how she lived. In the last twelve months, she had survived dust while writing about elephant keepers in Kenya, ice while writing about the spirit bear of British Columbia, and flies while writing about a family of nomads in India. explorer freelancer survival writer Barbara Delinsky
103304a The dangers that we face are part of the process, now well underway, of the unification of the planet--in language, culture, science, and commerce. They are both driven by the identical technological advances--this critical and delicate time coincides with the widespread availability of nuclear weapons. At the present rate of change, it seems likely that in the period between now and 2061, the turning point for the human species will have been reached. If we survive until then, our passage to the next apparition of Halley's Comet should be comparatively easy. That perihelion passage will be in March 2134, when the comet will make an unusually close encounter with the Earth. It will come as close as 0.09AU or 14 million kilometers, less than half the distance of the 1910 encounter. It will then be brighter than the brightest star. If there are those to do the commemorating, the years 2061 and 2134 should be celebrated for the courage, intelligence, and common purpose of a species forced by urgent necessity to come to its senses. comet human-species humanity inspirationalal science survival Carl Sagan Ann Druyan
f1f15d6 Why, Mr. Anderson?, Why, why?. Why do you do it? Why, why get up?. Why keep fighting?. Do you believe you're fighting...for something?. For more than your survival?. Can you tell me what it is?. Do you even know?; Is it freedom?, Or truth?. Perhaps peace?. Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although... only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now, You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson?. Why?, Why do you persist?. Agent Smith ( Matrix Revolutions Movie, 2003 ). existence fight freedom human-beings illusions love matrix passion perception persistence survival survival-instinct truth why why-we-live win William Irwin
78ba4c3 and ... Love life! Too many people would rather be dead than be embarrassed or soiled. That is very foolish. Life is a brilliant and wonderful adventure. Never throw it away, and never hide from it. life-quotes pride prideful survival survive uplifting-quotes Sean McMullen
06225b1 "Butters," I said, "Don't give me statistics on heart failure. Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it." fear survival Jim Butcher
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