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...

You may be operating from the belief that you must do everything yourself because no one will ever be there for you. Or you may think that if you never speak up you’ll avoid being...

The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

If God’s love encompasses the whole world and if everyone who does not believe in him will perish, then surely this question needs to be asked: When, after two thousand years, does God’s plan kick...

You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.

For those that dare to stand upagainst those that want to knock you down.” The dedication from Worst Case Scenario: Bug Out – Book 2.

The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

The bright blue sky remained cloudless, and the aquamarine ocean still crashed gently onto the white sand beach, but the scene was suddenly warped. Twisted, as I processed Thad’s words.

Moderation is the secret of survival.

Use your strength, but always remember that any strengthmay become a weakness.

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The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

When you’ve crawled through the darkness, the light is so much more glorious.

Listen up, Nic,” she said firmly, looking straight into his gray-blue eyes. “If you die on me out here, so help me I’ll hold seances and pester you. I won’t give you a moment’s peace...

Willpower survives.

In the year 2025, the best men don’t run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

I kept getting the odd sensation that I was in fact perfectly stationary, and that I was pushing the world around under my feet.

Sofya now understood the difference between life and existence: her life had come to an end, but her existence could drag on indefinitely. And however wretched and miserable this existence was, the thought of violent...

If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no...

Jane woke, stretched, and decided to kill herself. If she hadn’t found a reason to live by the end of the day she would jump from the rig. It felt good to have a plan.

That is the behavior people take under the pressure of survival, … This is misconstrued as looting, as thievery.

A Litany for SurvivalFor those of us who live at the shorelinestanding upon the constant edges of decisioncrucial and alonefor those of us who cannot indulgethe passing dreams of choicewho love in doorways coming and...

Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you’ll live through the night.

Growing up in a cathedral precinct, what did I know of the absurdities of communism, of how brave man and women in bleak and remote penal colonies were reduced to thinking day by day of...

Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?

It’s important to have a buddy like that. Somebody who’ll stop you from doing that really stupid thing you were gonna do just because you couldn’t think of anything better. — unidentified soldier, eulogizing his...

It’s only life. We all get through it.

They had taken to the movement unlike anything he had ever seen, and he thought that should this venture of the Jews prove successful, the new state would be filled with dancers and musicians, but...

Don’t fuck around thinking you could have done it better. There is no better. There’s just not being dead.

Terror builds inside him. The reality that tonight will be his last leaves a sour taste in his mouth. The Tainted will eat him, or on a more terrifying note—if that’s even possible—maybe turn him...

She lives for this-the fight, the battle for survival. She actually enjoys it.

When you live in my house, you learn to be fine with whatever you come across. It’s the only way to stay sane in insanity.

And in Kandahar he was taught about survival, about fighting and killing and hunting, and he learned much else without being taught, such as looking out for himself and watching his tongue and not saying...

To have endured all the horrors he did, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that the honorable and brave and good...

Survival of the generic.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don’t have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn’t mean they apply to you.

I miss people, you know? I miss actually living. I want to have a purpose in my life, but I don’t. I’m just existing, and I don’t know how long I can continue it.

We survive, in the confusionof a life reborn beyond reason.

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

The eye is always half-full.

Why should he be spared?”Someone ought to be.’ And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.

Our chances of survival were entirely dependent on our ability and willingness to dominate others.

Sometimes I am all right. Is this what they call letting go? I have let go, if letting go means I am all right sometimes.

There were two choices in life. Survive or succumb. And most people weren’t even conscious of the path they chose. Because they chose for all the wrong reasons. Love, principles, dreams, desire. The world hadn’t...

The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality only at the risk of being driven into the wilderness yourself.

Our group pressed west on what was left of Highway 93, toward the pass leading to Las Vegas. Sand covered the road in loose drifts so deep the horses’ hooves sank into them. The metal...

The brutalities of wolves are not for enjoyment and pleasure; they are all just for the survival.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything