It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done

As a journalist, I am compelled to know the answers.””As a girl, I am compelled to protect what’s left of my manicure,” Petra said.

In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist.

People and birds were alike. Things happened that hurt them or made their lives harder. All the time. But losing someone or something important didn’t mean the end of everything. It meant you had to...

It wasn’t him speaking. It was panic, anger, fear, and confusion. But how could he show it on the outside? Men are supposed to be fearless.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

With the money my mother earned from selling cakes, my father cut a deal with Mangochi and bought one pail of maize. My mother took it to the mill, saved half the flour for us,...

Nobody should have to die like these people had. I didn’t know each of their circumstances, but I had a good guess. These people had died in terror, horror, and pain. More than likely, they...

Samuel, safety is my watchword. Rest assured that proper procedures will be followed at all times.”Skipper giggled. “Tell me, Mump. What ARE proper procedures exactly?””Simple,” said Mump. “One: cause maximum chaos in the shortest possible...

Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It’s growing out of sour earth....

A year ago, we were struggling for survival. At least now, we can dream a little bigger.

There were some things it was better not to know. They caused “metaphysical” anguish, for which there was as yet no remedy. When it was worried, the Tribe was inhibited and unable to act.It was...

We are more than the worst thing that’s ever happened to us. All of us need to stop apologizing, for having been to hell and come back breathing.

You need to be proud of the fact that you survived everything you went through as a child. Don’t seperate yourself from that life. Embrace it, because I’m so fucking proud of you.

Old dogs lives longer by learning new tricks

In the end, He’s the only reason that I made it. Sometimes that’s the only thing we have. Whether you call it God, or hope, or faith -whatever word you use- the fact is, I...

Life in the wild, as I’m observing, is about survival as much as pleasure.

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

We are respecting our parents’ wishes….They didn’t want to shelter us from the world’s treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

I, personally, have resolved never to display weakness, to be always strong and firm and forthright, to show neither fear nor uncertainty– no matter how fearful and uncertain I may be inside; I see no...

One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No ‘poof.’ No flash of light. No explosion.

Sasha’s green eyes were right up against yours, the lashes interlocking. “In Naples,” she said, “there were kids who were just lost. You knew they were never going to get back to what they’d been,...

My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.

You cannot sensibly expect a starving ‘God-fearing’ man to honor the 8th commandment.

The past might hurt but don’t run from it, repeat it, or punish others for it. Learn from it and be glad that you survived it.

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Don’t play his game. Play yours.

That’s what any committed patriot would do: Fight to the last. Defeat your enemy at any cost; then hope you have enough left to rebuild.

The climber, like a fox which is hard-pressed, should always have one more trick in his bag.

There is no pride when it comes to survival, only determination.

The power of an idea is never to be underestimated. Many a thought has survived long after its host has ceased to be. It is the power of an idea that no shield can defend...

Let’s be very clear about this, asshole: I’ve been a woman in Arkansas. I know damn well what it means when a man says to me ‘Calm down.’ Being raped comes next, and that’s a...

So now you know that, as dark as the depths of the sea may be, as dark as the night gets without a moon, it is not really true darkness. It’s just waiting for light...

Don’t just survive while waiting for someone’s revolution to clear your head.

True, t is only individuals who starve, but what security has the working-man that it may not be his turn tomorrow? Who assures him employment, who vouches for it that, if for any reason or...

Tough times don’t last, tough people do, remember?

Kate stops grinding the knife and begins to pass it over the length of the stone. Turning her wrist, she pulls the blade, swiping one side after the other, honing it to a fine edge....

I can’t believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon dioxide is real. Water is expensive. Bio-tech has created as many problems as it has fixed, but...

Loving someone always requires you to not love others.

Louie was furious at the sharks. He had thought that they had an understanding:The men would stay out of the sharks’ turf – the water – and the sharks would stay off of theirs –...

I will survive: if the hell rejects me, there is always the paradise.

To return to nature is to embrace extinction.

Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.

But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!’ ‘Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical…There is no strength to...

What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in...

I do care. That’s why I hunt them. But if you’ve seen what I have, then you learn to deal with the murders and disappearances. You learn to push it aside and move on. The...

Love shouldn’t feel like the Hunger Games. There should not be a constant struggle for survival.