To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such.

Life made you get your hands dirty; life was vengeful if you tried an easy route.

All civilized wo/men are prostitutes: Some sell what’s between their legs; the rest sell what’s between their ears.

When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness, there are three things that can show you the way: instinct to survive, the knowledge of navigation, creative imagination. Without them, you are lost.

I told Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson, then age 105, that she was the only person over 80 who I’d ever met who never referred to her physical infirmities or health problems. To which she replied,...

There are creatures in this world, small things and pretty things, which burn within them a fire for survival.

Never shame your comrades by letting their death get you killed

I survived, but it’s not a happy ending.

Scars are not signs of weakness, they are signs of survival and endurance.

The biggest threats to human survival today are not wars or conflict, it is modern business.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

There was no such thing as a fair fight. All vulnerabilities must be exploited.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

Survival often demands our courage.

An old dog lives longer by learning new tricks

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...

The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter

…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...

Wondering why you survived don’t help you survive

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

… the burrowing wasp, which in order to provide a supply of fresh meat for her offspring after her own decease, calls in the science of anatomy to amplify the resources of her instinctive cruelty,...

DBT’s catchphrase of developing a life worth living means you’re not just surviving; rather, you have good reasons for living. I’m also getting better at keeping another dialectic in mind: On the one hand, the...

We all have our personal Andes.

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 justifies any means.

Por lo general, sólo se mantenían vivos aquellos prisioneros que tras varios años de dar tumbos de campo en campo, habían perdido todos sus escrúpulos en la lucha por la existencia; los que estaban dispuestos...

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...

I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.

Would you like to know your future?If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence —...

People tend to think that money makes them strong, but it’s those that learn to survive without it, are truly the stronger.

Whoever lives wins. Don’t feel guilty about having survived. If you have time to be feeling guilty, work on living a day longer, a minute longer. And once in a while, remember the ones that...

Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of feeling safe under someone else’s authority. The concept of self-sufficiency has been undermined...

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...

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.

Our pleasures were simple-they included survival.

For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn’t thinking about survival.

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

First you have to survive adolescence; then your education. Finally, yourself.

[…] and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive.

Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on democracy.

…oh boo hoo, everyone’s life was hard, and if you’d survived the hardship, why write about it? Survival itself was enough.

Here, just like in my own world, popularity was power; survival required the occasional sacrifice of a damaged limb—or a damaged cousin—and alliances were crucial.

Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass.

I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone.

Fate was a reality, but it wasn’t a beautiful or angelic thing. It was a heart-wrenching nightmare. And we’d fallen blindly into it. We had no escape. It was happening, and it was up to...

I just have to make it to the Tuichi’ I mumbled to myself, ‘I just have to make it to the Tuichi’.Alone, deep in the jungle, so small and insignificant, pitted against nature, still I...

Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

Knowing that this is what it means to live. That this love, this need is what drives us to push and fight and build and grow. That as long as there’s hope and love in...

Remember: You are no one. You have no name. You do not speak, you do not look at them, you do not volunteer for anything. You work, bot not so hard they notice you. Gizela....