#Survival

"Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge."

"‎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."

"We could do it, you know.""What?""Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it."

"I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day."(Interview with The Booklovers blog, September 2010)"

"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."

"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."

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

"The spirit and soul are the body and brain, which are destructible-that is precisely why they are so precious."

"We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving."

"Humor - I see it as a survival skill."

"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."

"I told Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson, then age 105, that she was the only person over 80 who I'd ever met who never referred to her physical infirmities or health problems. To which she replied, "I have my difficulties; I do not rejoice in them."

"Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor."

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

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

"We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't."

"I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long."

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

"War is not for winning, Masha,"sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving."

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