Quotes about Survival

In 1959 Corrie was part of a group that visited Ravensbruck, which was then in East Germany, to honor Betsie and the 96,000 other women who died there. There Corrie learned that her own release had been part of a clerical error; one week later all women her age were taken to the gas chamber.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

I have to have a daily, vibrant relationship with Jesus in order to survive that process toward healing.

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

my multifold years of life, I have learned that most people get along as best they can. They don't intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.

After all, what good is a life saved if you fail to live it?

Usually, the foreman found some reason to hold back some of Rusty's check, because Rusty'd showed up a few minutes late, or broke some tool, or something. He knew Rusty couldn't say anything about it, any more than all the illegals who worked down there could. Some folks just have to keep their heads down and take it, even if it's not fair, because they don't have anywhere else to go.

In my multifold years of life, I have learned that most people get along as best they can. They don't intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving

most people get along as best they can. They don't intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.

I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.

A whale is as unique as a cactus. But don't ask a whale to survive Death Valley. We all have special gifts. Where we use them and how determines whether we actually complete something.

Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.