#Survival

"Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels."

"Compassion is the key to the ultimate survival of our species."

"Loving someone always requires you to not love others."

"But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."

"‎Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment."

"Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy but for the moments when it becomes difficult, when accident or sickness or sadness strikes, it's just about remembering one thing. You must simply survive."

"Evolution does not necessarily favor the longest-lived. It doesn't necessarily favor the biggest or the strongest or the fastest, and not even the smartest. Evolution favors those creatures best adapted to their environment. That is the sole test of survival and success."

"The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode."

"We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has."

"There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used to read that in business journals. But that's not what Darwinian means to a biologist; it's whatever leads to reproductive success."

"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival."

"Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?"

"The man armed with knowledge has a better chance of survival than the man who is simply the fittest. Knowledge is the true strength. Muscle is where the myth is."

"Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy."

"We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth."

"Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope."

"Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival."

"My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things."

"Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?"