Survival Quotes - Page 13

• Survival is nothing more than recovery.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Recovery

  "Pulse victim: How I learned the meaning of survival" By Brandon J. Wolf, www.cnn.com. June 11, 2017.

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• They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.

  Ann Brashares

  Self, Together, Plot

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.58, Random House

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• It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.

  Joy Bryant

  Giving, Feel Good, Purpose

  "Why Wait For A Crisis To Give?" by Joy Bryant, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2009.

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• The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.

  Herman Melville

  Reality, Next, Ghost

  Herman Melville (2015). “Mardi: and A Voyage Thither: Works of Melville”, p.28, 谷月社

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• The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

  Mo Udall

  Nature, Fighting, Exploits

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• If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Packs Of Wolves, Ifs

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• In a mad world only the mad are sane.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Depression, Crazy, Insane World

  "Fictional character: Kyoami". "Ran", www.imdb.com. 1985.

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• It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change, that lives within the means available and works co-operatively against common threats.

  Charles Darwin

  Mean, Intelligent, Common

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• This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

  Don McLean

  Romantic, Beautiful, World

  Song: Vincent

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• Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Fall, People

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.169, Shambhala Publications

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• Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Pain, Self

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Appreciation, Beloved, Cowardice

  Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.29, Melville House

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• We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.

  B. F. Skinner

  Values

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• Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sacrifice, Self, Progress

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.195, Wordsworth Editions

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• ...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

  George Orwell

  War, Consciousness, Natural

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.415, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

  George S. Patton

  Change, Business, Past

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  From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Kindness, Teaching

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• On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, Wisdom, Zero

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.

  Malin Akerman

  Survival Mode, People, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Self Esteem, Self, Esteem

  Martha Gellhorn (2001). “Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir”, p.13, Penguin

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• If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

  Terry Goodkind

  Truth, Adversity, Way

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Soul Of The Fire”, p.277, Head of Zeus

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• Getting started, keeping going, getting started again - in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm not only of achievement but of survival, the ground of convinced
  action, the basis of self-esteem and the guarantee of credibility in your lives, credibility to yourselves as well as to others.

  Seamus Heaney

  Art, Self Esteem, Achievement

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• That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

  Danny Boyle

  Powerful, Needs, Taste

  "127 Hours: Director Danny Boyle Says You’d Cut Your Hand Off, Too". Interview with Mary Anne Potts, adventureblog.nationalgeographic.com. November 4, 2010.

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• Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

  Garry Shandling

  Defense, Able, Comedy

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• I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach.

  Glenn Gould

  Life, Music, Being Alone

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