Survival Quotes - Page 10

• The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

  Jane Wagner

  Funny, Success, Women

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• Action is the antidote to despair.

  Joan Baez

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Joan Baez 75th Birthday Concert: Four Days Before The Iowa Voting, A Double Shot Of Espresso" by Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2016.

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• Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.

  Gerda Weissmann Klein

  Privilege, Painful, Burden

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• There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

  Thornton Wilder

  Love, Life, Fun

  Thornton Wilder (1962). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey”, New York : Limited Editions Club

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• Moderation is the secret of survival.

  Manly Hall

  Secret, Moderation

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• Evolution is an unproven theory. If what its fundamentalist supporters believe is true, fishes decided to grow lungs and legs and walk up the beach. The idea is so comically daft that only one thing explains its survival-that lonely, frightened people wanted to expel God from the Universe because they found the idea that He exists profoundly uncomfortable.

  Peter Hitchens

  Beach, Lonely, Believe

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• I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.

  Harlan Ellison

  Pain, Philosophy, Sadness

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Paingod: And Other Delusions”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Laughter, Humanity, Levels

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• Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

  John H. Johnson

  Running, Way, Scared

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• Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.

  Carl Sagan

  Passion, Learning, Science

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• If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Fighting, Men, Sheep

  Oriana Fallaci (1980). “A man”, Simon & Schuster

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• They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.

  Richard Dawkins

  Names, Long, Mind

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.41, Oxford University Press

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• Love when you can, cry when you have to, be who you must, that's a part of the plan. Await your arrival with simple survival, and one day we'll all understand.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Song, Simple, One Day

  Song: Part Of The Plan, Album: Souvenirs, 1974

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• It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Good Life, Intelligent, Intelligence

  "Duh! The Stupid History of the Human Race". Book by Bob Fenster, September 2000.

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• Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers.

  Bill Cosby

  Laughter, Blow, Worst Situation

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• Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.

  Duke Ellington

  Selfishness, Essentials, Virtue

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• I think the role of comedy in your life should supersede anything and everything negative. Just by virtue of the fact that you have to be funny, you can't afford to focus on the negative. As a comedian, your challenge is to turn negative stuff into positive energy. You should be able to hear anything that sounds bad, that people normally wouldn't laugh at, and make it feel funny to you. No one should be able to deter you, once you have your mind set on comedy. Your survival as a comedian should be as natural as breathing. I need to breathe and I consider my career my air.

  DeRay Davis

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• It's okay to be two things at once and a paradox. Everybody is. As humans for survival we like to label things in a split second. It is how we don't implode from anxiety.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Anxiety, Paradox, Okay

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• One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Change, Sleep

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• We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.

  Charles Darwin

  Struggle, Science, Details

  On the Origin of Species ch. 3 (1859) See Malthus 2

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

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Pain, Past, Dragons

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• Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.

  Alan Watts

  Circles, Expectations, Doe

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• Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

  Bruce Lee

  Change, Moving On, Success

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.14, Tuttle Publishing

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• Survival is triumph enough.

  Harry Crews

  Triumph, Enough

  Harry Crews (1993). “Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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  Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "A Small Drop of Ink: A Collection of Inspirational and Moving Quotations of the Ages". Book by Linda Pendleton, 2003.

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