the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair
Rohinton MistryTags: despair hope balance survival
...oh boo hoo, everyone’s life was hard, and if you’d survived the hardship, why write about it? Survival itself was enough.
Meg WolitzerTags: survival
You all set?” he asked, tossing me a pair of sunglasses.
“Wow, nice.” I felt the frame, rubbing my finger over the lenses to wipe away a smudge. “Not bad, Phoenix.”
“Twinkies.” He slid his pair on and adjusted the gun across his chest. “Told you. Breakfast of champions."
- Skylla and Jet
Tags: friendship love survival
People who have so much of their personality invested in the Internet can’t really survive as whole individuals without it.
Mark A. RaynerTags: people survival internet person world-wide-web
Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces."
Essay on the Biological Sciences, in: Good Reading (1958)
Tags: life humanity nature mankind survival cosmos
If you dont speak, they will know you know more than you're telling them. And if they know that, they'll find a way to get what you know out of you. Believe me, they'll get everything out, Willie. Don't have any qualms about it -- make your story good and make it believable. Silence won't work!" This was an expert giving me the best advice she could. From that point on, I worked hard not to remember the people I loved, to try instead to create another life, a false life...I tried to become a person concerned only with very simple things -- and scared. I tried to become the woman I needed to be in order to live.
Diet EmanTags: advice identity survival
We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road — the one less traveled by — offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.
Rachel CarsonTags: poetry frost nature environment civilization poem survival earth preservation robert-frost
Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.
Dave PelzerEscape was not our goal since it was so unrealistic. What we wanted was to survive, to live long enough to tell the world what had happened in Buchenwald.
Jack WerberTags: survival holocaust buchenwald
We need to be fit and ready for anything that might come our way.
Aaron B. PowellTags: truth survival fighting apocalypse nuclear-war fit
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