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Their locked hands offered a stark reminder of how many scars lingered … shards of war and distressing anguish forever branded them. Yet in this endearing moment of comfort, their adversity became skinspeak between survivors phoenixing from the ashes of their perilous journey—their burning eagerness for survival overcoming the forces that once tried to stifle their light.

~ Becca Vry

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If my goal is simply to survive the journey, then I’m not on the journey in the first place.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Destination Goal Journey Safety Security Self Preservation Survival Survive

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)

~ Ron Rash

Ron Rash Choices Decisions Survival

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.

~ Katie Mcgarry

Katie Mcgarry Choices Good And Evil Right Or Wrong Survival

She was beginning to realize people could survive most things. Not because thy were brave or strong, but because there wasn't any choice.

~ Candice Proctor

Candice Proctor Brave Choices Courage Survival

It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survival is still alive in a man, while he still believes his troubles will have a favorable outcome, and while he still has the chance to unmask treason or to save someone else by sacrificing himself, he continues to cling to the pitiful remnants of comfort and remains silent and submissive. When he has been taken and destroyed, when he has nothing more to lose, and is, in consequence, ready and eager for heroic action, his belated rage can only spend itself against the stone walls of solitary confinement. Or the breath of the death sentence makes him indifferent to earthly affairs.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 Futility Human Nature Prison Sacrifice Submission Survival Treason

At the end of the day, we're all striving to be touched, somehow.

~ Crystal Woods

Crystal Woods Human Nature Life Love Needy Story Survival Touched

How could I admit that the All-American Girl's force field of stoicism and self-reliance and do-unto-others-and-keep-smiling wasn't working, wasn't keeping pain and shame and powerlessness away? From a young age I had learned to get over - to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief that they were mine alone to solve. So when exhilarating transgressions required getting over on authority figures, I knew how to do it. I was a great bluffer. And when common, everyday survival in prison required getting over, I could do that too. This is what was approvingly described by my fellow prisoners as 'street-smarts,' as in 'You wouldn't think it to look at her, but Piper's got street-smarts.

~ Piper Kerman

Piper Kerman Authority Emotions Prison Self Reliance Stoicism Street Smart Survival

It is not what happens to you that matters, it is how you feel about it that does.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Shannon L. Alder Achievers Circumstances Conflict Emotions Negativity Overcome Overcomers Survival

If you fall from a plane onto a river, and survived, it is luck, but if you fall from a plane onto asphalt ground, and survived, then that is a miracle.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

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The survival of religion is on the basis of torture and punishment, end of torture is end of religion.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

M.f. Moonzajer Atheism Punishment Religion Survival Torture

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

~ Larry Niven

Larry Niven Legal Maxim No Remorse Pg295 Survival Survivalism Trade Value

Nadia's experiences during her first months as a single woman living on her own did, in some moments, equal or even surpass the loathsomeness and dangerousness that her family had warned her about. But she had a job at an insurance company, and she was determined to survive, and so she did.

~ Mohsin Hamid

Mohsin Hamid Survival Woman

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.

~ Leon C. Megginson

Leon C. Megginson Adaptability Evolution Misattributed To Darwin Survival Survival Of The Fittest

If you look at the picture of a beautiful bird eating a little fish, you will see two victims there: Fish is already a victim; but the bird is also a victim because to survive, it has to be a killer; it is forced to be a murderer!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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When our earliest human ancestors left the trees and moved to the open grasslands of the savanna, they adopted an upright stance. Possessing already this powerful visual system, they could see far into the distance (giraffes and elephants might stand taller, but their eyes are on the sides, giving them instead panoramic vision). This allowed them to spot dangerous predators far away on the horizon and detect their movements even in twilight. Given a few seconds or minutes, they could plot a safe retreat. At the same time, if they focused on what was nearest at hand, they could identify all kinds of important details in their environment—footprints and signs of passing predators, or the colors and shapes of rocks that they could pick up and perhaps use as tools.

~ Robert Greene

Robert Greene Evolution Survival Vision

n the treetops, this powerful vision was built for speed—seeing and reacting quickly. On the open grassland, it was the opposite. Safety and finding food relied upon slow, patient observation of the environment, on the ability to pick out details and focus on what they might mean. Our ancestors’ survival depended on the intensity of their attention. The longer and harder they looked, the more they could distinguish between an opportunity and a danger. If they simply scanned the horizon quickly they could see a lot more, but this would overload the mind with information—too many details for such sharp vision. The human visual system is not built for scanning, as a cow’s is, but for depth of focus.

~ Robert Greene

Robert Greene Evolution Survival Vision

Animals are locked in a perpetual present. They can learn from recent events, but they are easily distracted by what is in front of their eyes. Slowly, over a great period of time, our ancestors overcame this basic animal weakness. By looking long enough at any object and refusing to be distracted—even for a few seconds—they could momentarily detach themselves from their immediate surroundings. In this way they could notice patterns, make generalizations, and think ahead. They had the mental distance to think and reflect, even on the smallest scale.These early humans evolved the ability to detach and think as their primary advantage in the struggle to avoid predators and find food. It connected them to a reality other animals could not access. Thinking on this level was the single greatest turning point in all of evolution—the emergence of the conscious, reasoning mind.

~ Robert Greene

Robert Greene Evolution Survival Vision

Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is.

~ Cixin Liu

Cixin Liu Arrogance Doom Evolution Survival Weakness

like all other living creatures, I am the descendant of survivors, so the fear in my head is the voice of my ancestors whispering their accumulated wisdom.

~ David George Haskell

David George Haskell Descendants Evolution Fear Survival

Evolution taught us that adaptation is the key to survival.

~ Gemma Malley

Gemma Malley Adaptation Evolution Survival The Legacy

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~ Kamil Ali

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Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

~ Theodosius Dobzhansky

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Might one not say that in the chance combination of nature's production, since only those endowed with certain relations of suitability could survive, it is no cause for wonder that this suitability is found in all species that exist today? Chance, one might say, produced an innumerable multitude of individuals; a small number turned out to be constructed in such fashion that the parts of the animal could satisfy its needs; in another, infinitely greater number, there was neither suitability nor order: all of the later have perished; animals without a mouth could not live, others lacking organs for reproduction could not perpetuate themselves: the only ones to have remained are those in which were found order and suitability; and these species, which we see today, are only the smallest part of what blind fate produced.

~ Pierre-Louis Moreau De Maupertuis

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Evolution, energy, and ethics are the core elements that will guide us along the challenging path toward the Life Era: the first - evolution - because a good understanding of our universal roots and of our place in the cosmic scheme of things will help us create a feasible future course; the second - energy - because our fate will bear strongly on the ways that humankind learns to use energy efficiently and safely; and the third - ethics - because global citizenship and a planetary society are crucial factors in the survival of our species.

~ Eric Chaisson

Eric Chaisson Energy Ethics Evolution Life Survival

Professional Ketman is reasoned thus: since I find myself in circumstances over which I have no control, and since I have but one life and that is fleeting, I should strive to do my best. I am like a crustacean attached to a crag on the bottom of the sea. Over me storms rage and huge ships sail; but my entire effort is concentrated upon clinging to the rock, for otherwise I will be carried off by the waters and perish, leaving no trace behind.

~ Czesław Miłosz

Czesław Miłosz Attitude Captive Mind Communism Ketman Survival Totalitarianism

Life is beautiful, but it is also so damn ugly.

~ Mommy Moo Moo

Mommy Moo Moo Attitude Toward Life Perspective Philosophy Of Life Survival

In the perspective of our species, life has favored humanity as a whole by promoting as much wealth of variety and options as possible, and has distributed everything using the four winds. Life has given mankind everything it has, without segregation and without consideration of which characteristic or quality best suits the situations or the periods. Only by having the totality of human characteristics and options can we hope to deal with all periods to come.Our collective is our key to survival and well-being.

~ Haroutioun Bochnakian

Haroutioun Bochnakian Humanism Inspirational Perspective Self Knowledge Survival

She enjoys a fight for survival.

~ Diane B. Saxton

Diane B. Saxton Female Empowerment Fight Fighter Fighting Spirit Independence Perspective Survival

That was how people got through life, he supposed: by acknowledging death and telling it, “Not today.

~ Molly Ringle

Molly Ringle Death Life Philosophy Of Life Survival

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.

~ Michelle Sagara West

Michelle Sagara West Creed Family Values Home Kaylin Neya Survival

It's all in the reflexes.

~ Jack Burton (Kurt Russell)

Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) Awareness Prescience Reflexes Survival Survival Instinct

If I die on my way to the dance, it will be better than to survive having never lifted my feet.

~ Agnostic Zetetic

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

~ Tahir Shah

Tahir Shah Priorities Respect Survival

You can survive any shock.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Lailah Gifty Akita Dont Give Up Encouragement Inner Strength Recovery Shock Survival

WHY PARADIGMS MATTERIdeas drive results. People's beliefs drive their actions. Actions that stem from a simple, complete and accurate paradigm result in personal fulfillment, harmonious relationships, and economic prosperity.Actions based on false, incomplete and inaccurate paradigms, however well intended or passionately defended, are the cause of widespread misery, suffering and deprivation.As detailed in Rethinking Survival: Getting to the Positive Paradigm of Change, a fatal information deficit explains the worldwide leadership deficit and related budget deficits. In a dangerous world where psychological and economic warfare compete with religious extremism and terrorism to undo thousands of years of incremental human progress, a healing balance is urgently needed. Restoring a simple, complete and accurate paradigm of leadership and relationships now could make the difference between human survival on the one hand, and the extinction of the human race (or the end of civilization as we know it), on the other. p. 7.

~ Patricia E. West

Patricia E. West Mindfulness Self Help Inspirational Survival

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.

~ Barbara Delinsky

Barbara Delinsky Charlotte Evans Explorer Freelancer Survival Writer

Survival is a passive way of saying “my needs are greater than yours.

~ Caroline George

Caroline George Apocalypse Author Caroline George Selfish Selfishness Survival The End Of The World Truth

He fought for his very survival. If he fought dirty sometimes that does not diminish the fact that he refused to give up.

~ Nancy Milford

Nancy Milford Determination Survival

There is no pride when it comes to survival, only determination.

~ Anthony Liccione

Anthony Liccione Determination Struggle Survival
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