[I]t was in the pairs that the prisoners kept alive the semblance of humanityconcluded Elmer Luchterhand, a sociologist at Yale who interviewed fifty-two concentration camp survivors shortly after liberation.
Pairs stole food and clothing for each other, exchanged small gifts and planned for the future. If one member of a pair fainted from hunger in front of an SS officer, the other would prop him up.
Survival . . . could only be a social achievement, not an individual accident, wrote Eugene Weinstock, a Belgian resistance fighter and Hungarian-born Jew who was sent to Buchenwald in 1943.
Finally the death of one member of a pair often doomed the other. Women who knew Anne Frank in the Bergen-Belsen camp said that neither hunger nor typhus killed the young girl who would become the most famous diarist of the Nazi era. Rather, they said, she lost the will to live after the death of her sister, Margot. Blaine Harden
Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.
Scott McCloudTags: art creativity comics survival reproduction instincts human-activity sequential-art
She was beginning to realize people could survive most things. Not because thy were brave or strong, but because there wasn't any choice.
Candice ProctorTags: courage brave survival choices
While complying can be an effective strategy
for physical survival, it's a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in
control. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you
through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.
Tags: fulfillment survival classroom engagement compliance workplace
I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But (...) we must see all scars as beauty. (...) Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.
Chris CleaveTags: inspirational survival little-bee the-other-hand
What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
AberjhaniTags: humanity war faith heaven hope spirituality survival violence transcendence terrorism bombs human-rights-day massacre strength-and-courage survival-of-the-human-soul the-human-heart violence-in-syria
We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and yet the spirit may well survive - survive the condemnations, survive the halter, by Jove! And there are things - they look small enough sometimes too - by which some of us are totally and completely undone.
Joseph ConradI 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 other life isn't here anymore. This new world has its own rules. Survival of the fittest is one of them. If you're hoping for kindness and pity, don't hold your breath.
Susanne WinnackerTags: survival rationality zombie-apocalypse
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 - but the civil sirens sounded, surprising him with his silly private thought. That's what they blow them for. Thought is a national product, issued, like survival, on a day to day basis. There you go. Until tomorrow. When he understood this would be a long one today, he hurried on.
Douglas WoolfWhenever there is love beyond boundaries ....
Whenever trust flows deeper than oceans ....
Nevertheless, a Trial is born ....
You pass that trial, sacred you shall be .... if you don't, your are immortal !!!!
Tags: life love life-experience patience joy survival life-philosophy suspicion trials-of-life wanderer mystery-suspense intimate tragedy-of-commons passion-unleashed disguised
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