SPIT ALL OVER SOMEONE WITH A MOUTHFUL OF MILK IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR PERSONALITY FAST.

I opened the door of my mother’s stand-alone wardrobe and let the smell of her wash over me. I loved having this one unspoiled part of her left just for me. I leaned forward, slipped...

Fear is a part of life. It’s a warning mechanism. That’s all. It tells you when there’s danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.

I have no language to paint the horrors of our situation. To shed tears was indeed altogether unavailing and withal unmanly yet I was not able to deny myself the relief they served to afford...

Sometimes you just have to trust your instincts; it may be all you have to trust.

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

Only those who are able to adapt to changing scenarios will continue to survive and prosper. Success is directly proportional to the degree of positive adaptation to change.

We did not make ourselves, nor did we fashion a world that could not work without pain, and great pain at that, with a little pleasure, very little, to string us along–a world where all...

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

Survivors aren’t always the strongest; sometimes they’re the smartest, but more often simply the luckiest.

The ceremony was fast so we wouldn’t be caught. When it was over, the men all whispered ‘Mazel tov’ and climbed back onto their shelves. I went up to the boy and pressed the wooden...

War is not for winning, Masha,” sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. “It is for surviving.

The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly always a matter of conditioned reflexes.

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 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.

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.