Survival Quotes

Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.

Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.

Survival's the thing, isn't it?

Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.

Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.

Wrinkles ought to be worn as a badge of honour, as a mark of survival if not wisdom.

Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.

To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent "Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze "The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life.

Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival.

As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place.

Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival - but in code.

A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing.

Spending practically every minute of your day on pure survival is an absolutely boring life.

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

Bumble-Ardy looks like a happy book. That's the funniest thing about it. But this was survival. I was working very hard to survive.

Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.

...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)

It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides tension in a lot of films.

Cancer Is an opportunity to sit down and look into yourself and find the answers. Yes, it's serious, but it's not the end-all.

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.

I did bronze survival swimming. I could save people in a bronzey kind of way.

Power is just so much part of the human being because power is survival. But I wonder if that is the best way to survive, by killing someone else.

Protecting biodiversity is just as important and critical to the survival of mankind as stabilizing the climate. Species protection and climate are interdependent.

There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.

We really depend on viruses for our complete survival.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Quite often when you help poor people, they don't think about the environment. They think about survival.

You need to be hyper-aware because it's your survival at stake.

I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in my mind.

Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

I know it's not good to be weak and helpless. But I don't think it's good to be too strong either. In our society, they talk about survival of the fittest. But we're not animals. We're human.

God’s grace will cover us like a cloak-enough to provide for survival but too thin to keep out all the cold.

Each delicately and fiercely imaged poem is a tribute to perseverence and survival and a lesson for us all.

Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

Things we cannot solve, we must survive.

Survival is optional. No one has to change.

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.

Battles over water in the West are always about something more. At their most elemental, they are about survival.

Fear is a survival tool not a handicap.

As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live.

Most of us have just learned to exercise our survival muscle. It's time to build our victory muscle.

We have ourselves to save.