Surviving Quotes - Page 2

• First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

  Ninette de Valois

  Dance, Learning, Past

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• ...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.

  Heinz Kohut

  Sympathy, Men, Compassion

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• Knowledge is the key to survival, the real beauty of that is that it doesn't weigh anything.

  Ray Mears

  Beauty, Real, Knowledge

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• A lot of life is just surviving what happens.

  Deb Caletti

  Life Is, Happens

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• When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.

  Mika

  Clubs, Way, Another Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Surviving means being born over and over.

  Erica Jong

  Life, Mean, Born

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• Trying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked. Daring them to think of me as anything but a form they were trying to capture with their pencils and charcoal. I was defiant. Hell-bent on surviving. On making it. But it was hard and it was lonely, and I had to dare myself every day to keep going.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Lonely, Art, Thinking

  "Madonna: I was raped at knifepoint" by Shane Hickey, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2013.

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• Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

  Eddie Bracken

  Survivor, Whole Life, Has Beens

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• There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving. I am not a religious man per se...but for me, to go to sea is to get a glimpse of the face of God. At sea I am reminded of my insignificance-of all men's insignificance. It is a wonderful feeling to be so humbled.

  Steven Callahan

  Religious, Men, Sea

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• Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.

  Jacques Derrida

  Names, Mourning, Possibility

  Jacques Derrida (2003). “The Work of Mourning”, p.1, University of Chicago Press

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• There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

  Charles de Lint

  Sometimes, More To Life

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• Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dream, Memories, Dark

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• When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.

  Fred Durst

  Worry, Car, Bills

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• The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself.

  Susan Cain

  School, Kids, Needs

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.253, Broadway Books

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• Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

  John Ciardi

  Character, Men, Survival

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• I close my eyes and black out the day. The exhaustion of living through it, surviving.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Eye, Black, Exhaustion

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• [...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Reason, Ifs

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Boredom, Capacity

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

  Lorna Luft

  Thinking, Coping

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• Grandparenthood is one of life's rewards for surviving your own children.

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, Rewards

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• There is more to life than surviving.

  Cassandra Clare

  More To Life

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away. They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless. I've been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That's the stuff my dreams are made of.

  Al Pacino

  Dream, Real, Thinking

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• The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.

  Orson Scott Card

  Fighting, Long, Citizens

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• I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Pain, Water, Settling

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• I have learned the power of surviving.

  Philippa Gregory

  I Have Learned

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Boleyn Inheritance”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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