All Quotes By Tag: 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.”
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“Compassion is the key to the ultimate survival of our species.”
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“We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.”
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“Sorry Johnny.” “Sorry for what ” “For shouting at you. It’s just that when I think about the future I keep panicking. It’s like falling from the top of the stairs in the dark not knowing where I’ll end up.” He put his arm around my shoulders. “I understand. Life is precarious for most of us but more so for you. What you forget is what most of your friends see in you.” “What’s that ” “The ability to beat the odds…” “And fall on my feet ” He nodded. “I just hope that lasts.” “It will Catkin it will. It wouldn’t dare fail you.”
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“Relax. They’re not going to kill us. They’re going to TRY and kill us. And that is a very different thing.”
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“Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.”
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“Mind led bodyto the edge of the precipice.They stared in desireat the naked abyss.If you love me, said mind,take that step into silence.If you love me, said body,turn and exist.”
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“To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence– words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.”
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“Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.”
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“Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.”
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“Every adversity brings new experiences and new lessons.”
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“…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 the wind…. That’s why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going.”
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“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.”
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“Would you like to know your future?If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence — a surprise.”
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“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.”
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