She taught me that life goes on, and that I had a choice. To lament what I no longer had or be grateful for what remained.

Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity.

Perhaps grief, which destroys all patterns, destroys even more: the belief that any patterns exist. But we cannot, I think, survive without such belief. So each of us must pretend to find, or re-erect, a...

Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.

Imagination is an instrument of survival.

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...

Even I recognize that I’m not being a proper role model right now. But I need you to understand. As your mother, it’s my duty to protect you from the evil intentions of whoever did...

Is this how humanity waves good-bye?Hell no.

Anyone that wants to live, get in.” His voice was deep and powerful, matching the promise his body made. He was confident and self-assured, the kind of man you wanted in your corner when the...

We could do it, you know. What? Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.

You can survive without artistry, but you cannot live without artistry.

Conclusion: I don’t need the water reclaimer at all. I’ll drink as needed and dump my waste outdoors. Yeah, that’s right, Mars, I’m gonna piss and shit on you. That’s what you get for trying...

Surviving is a necessity. Living is an art.

The only true dead are those who have been forgotten.

The economy of your country shall never determine the size of your three square meals if you know you can rise against and above all limitations! The climatic emergencies in the weather shall never determine...

Audros pasiaučia ir nurimsta, virš galvos dūžta bangos, didelės žuvys ryja mažas, o aš ir toliau iriuosi.

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...

The only bright corner of my heart, where nothing seemed to hurt, was where Grey was. When I thought of him, I could see a future where I could be happy again, where I might...

It is hard to struggle for success but harder for survival.

You’ll beat this. I know it doesn’t feel like it, but you will. You’re a survivor.””I don’t want to survive it.””I know that, too,” Nell had said. “And it’s fair enough. But sometimes we don’t...

After that day, I discovered one indelible truth. I discovered that love wasn’t everything that mattered in life. It was an emotion that not many had the luxury of feeling without any pain attached to...

My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important...

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...

I loved and lost and survived.

We laughed the way that only people who carry each other back from Hell can laugh when they finally get a hunger for the future once again.

Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.

Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.

Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.

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.

Mother Fuckers. They’re going to feel pretty stupid when they find out.They’re fucking with the wrong people.

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

My body is a political battlefield.It is a place of war, of death and suffering, of triumph and victory, of damage and repair, of blood and tears and sweat.It is a place where memories go...

It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.

You should never do everything for free because you won’t be able to survive alone or in comfort. But you should never charge for everything or too much because neither will the people who are...

Innate human tendencies were meant to help us survive the wilderness, not make investment decisions.

He’s afraid,” Graber said.”Yes, naturally. But he’s a good dog.””And a man-eater.””We’re all that.””Why?””We are. And we think, just like that dog, that we are still good. And just like him we are looking for...

Evolution taught us that adaptation is the key to survival.

Everyday has its own meaning. Find the reason of your survival of the day and accomplish it.

Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.

I just thought I was empty and now I’m being filled…and I just wanted to keep being filled.

Life in general was cruel and offered only different types of voids and chaos. The only way to tolerate it, to have any hope of escaping it, I reasoned, was to know my own strength,...

“” ― Neil Gaiman

I hurt all the damn time because my stupid heart has decided for one reason or another that it can’t survive without being next to yours. -Chase

Taking a risk to survive isn’t that impressive. Taking a risk to be happy, that takes guts.

[Is he unconsciously drawn to survival stories?] You should ask my psychiatrist, if I had one, … But the answer is maybe. Any kind of survival is a subject I enjoy dealing with.

What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.

La supervivencia no es cuestión de cortesía ni de disculpas.

One thing you have to realize from now on is that it doesn’t matter if this is a dream or not. Survival depends on what you do, not what you think.

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

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...