Quotes about Survival

A person had to keep herself in one piece when everything around her was falling apart.

child to lose her mother and brother, as you

Because when a team recovers from an incident of destructive conflict, it builds confidence that it can survive such an event, which in turn builds trust.

But no matter what is going on, there has to be something ultimately at stake. A prize, survival, sanity, success, even peace of mind.

When Bauhaus designers adopted Sullivan's form follows function, what they meant was, form should follow function. And if function is hard enough, form is forced to follow it, because there is no effort to spare for error. Wild animals are beautiful because they have hard lives.

Thy will be done, my Lord. Because you know the weakness in the heart of your children, and you assign each of them only the burden they can bear. May you understand my love—because it is the only thing I have that is really mine, the only thing that I will be able to take with me into the next life. Please allow it to be courageous and pure; please make it capable of surviving the snares of the world.

I cannot lose the one thing that keeps me alive : hope -

You drown not by falling in the river but by staying submerged in it.

Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

But it seems that in the end all that matters is finding a way to survive the grief and trusting in the goodness of life beyond the pain.

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.