Our ability to transcend betrayal is directly tied to our willingness to identify ourselves as love activists rather than victims of the Universe.

Dissociation can enable us to withstand pain and loss under which we would otherwise break. It enables us to survive and pull through. But, a habit of continual dissociation – especially after the trauma has...

We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last...

To horses, everyday is a new day to survive. It’s a natural instinct. They don’t think of the past or the future, only the present. So in terms of trying to teach your horse or...

The main element crucial for the survival of life is also a demon in disguise; it will snatch your life away as quickly as you were given it.

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.

There seemed no answer. He wasn’t resigned to anything, he hadn’t accepted or adjusted to the life he’d been forced into. Yet here he was, eight months after the plague’s last victim, nine since he’s...

The main benefit of innovation for your organization is not competitive advantage. It is survival.

But what were you supposed to do with that weight? Once it was on you? Just be a man? Just suck it up? Maybe you were. Maybe that was the real test. Maybe that is...

As long as it’s an every man for himself kind of world, men will always be for themselves. – Mayor Bentley in ‘Tilt

If I die on my way to the dance, it will be better than to survive having never lifted my feet.

Up the coast a few miles north, in a lava reef under the cliffs, there are a lot of rock pools. You can visit them when the tide is out. Each pool is separate and...

Tatakae!

Outside he hurried again, for he had several blocks to walk and the beer turned out to be no more than cool. He told himself he would remember next time to deal from the bottom...

I think you’re crazy good at this survival stuff, Cary.”His shoulders sag. He gives me a small, relieved smile and we start walking again, his step a little lighter than it was before. It feels...

When did my youth slip away from me? I suddenly thought. It was over, wasn’t it? Seemed just like yesterday I was still only half grown up. Huey Lewis and the News had a couple...

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism. Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer,...

If the cockroaches survive and we don’t, what does that say about human intelligence?

Luck often comes to those who are brave.

For no matter how many battles had been won or lost, no matter how many friends and soldiers killed, every battle felt like the first. And I realized that it wasn’t the training, nor the...

This world ye speak of, Akira, is built upon survival. The strong conquer and live, while the weak crumble and die.

Survival is an ancient dream Life is nothing but an everlasting illusionNothing is RealDon’t believe in illusion,Remember me,I am here …

I took to the Kingswood the midsummer after the Dame died. I did not swear a vow, but I kept to myself just as strictly, living like a beast in the forest from one midsummer...

If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite – the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for granted an impoverished environment – is a source of dismay....

The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live. There are different modes of survival. But all are not equally honorable. For an individual as...

Wood burns. Roots nourish. Branches shelter. Leaves heal.” The words had become her mantra, her way of reigniting her courage when it started to falter. My life depends on a tree, she thought wryly as...

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.

Some part of me believed, unassailably, and wordlessly and perhaps with a flick of justice, that they had sent me away because they were afraid of me. Like some monstrously deformed child who should never...

Be happy — if you’re not even happy, what’s so good about surviving?

Surviving is a basic thing. Getting by. Staying alive in whatever way we can. It doesn’t mean we make right choices or drive fine cars or have good jobs. It means we found a way...

Ah, but when one predator leaves, another inevitably will take its place. A void never remains a void for long.

The way to warm up is to lie next to another person. Naked.

The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating

You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

I am sure Cinderella was really smart. Even if the fairy had not appeared, she would have found some way out of their clutches. She would have had to; it’s called survival.

No food, you die in weeks. No water, you die in days.

A tiger of a rather and a wolf of a brother. Sandwiched between the two, I wonder what my tomorrow holds.

One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.

Survival was an unpleasent thing to witness.

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.