Survival quotations

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◆ We each survive in our own way.

- Sarah J. Maas99

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

- Carrie Ryan99

◆ Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

- Dorothy Parker99

◆ mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

- Joseph Heller99

◆ The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live.

- Frank McCourt99

◆ ...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.

- Kevin Brockmeier99

◆ I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.

- Tana French99

◆ Loving someone always requires you to not love others.

- Koushun Takami99

◆ Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.

- Betty Smith99

◆ Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.

- Laura Hillenbrand99

◆ The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.

- Ursula K. Le Guin99

◆ If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

- Sherman Alexie99

◆ 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.

- Jim Butcher99

◆ A strong woman perseveres regardless of the odds and circumstances. You don't know how strong you are until you've hit bottom and survived.

- 99

◆ No matter how bad we think our lives are today, we need to wake up with a thankful and forgiving heart and appreciate all that God has blessed us with. Someone, somewhere is fighting just to survive.

- David Kreger99