Quotes about Survival

Hope is as essential to your life as air and water. You need hope to cope.

The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.

My faith survived because I realized God didn't want this for us, He never had. I'm passionately looking forward to a new Heaven and Earth where only good exists once more.

God has made me into a tough, battle-hardened believer. I am very grateful to have those eleven years behind me. But I used them. I chose to survive with my faith intact. I chose to come out strong and together. I endured, and now I'm going to thrive. I don't expect life to be easy. I do expect God to be there with me. He was during the last eleven years.

Selfishness is not an option, even when it comes to a cell's own survival.

When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives.

Laughter is humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.

Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live.

The Pakistanis are very resilient people.

As a human, if you're in a scary situation, you pretty much forget about everything else! You just try and survive.

These qualities are beautifully encapsulated in the famous statement of Victor Frankl, himself a survivor of Auschwitz (and a neurologist and psychologist): "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." MBSR

We save the world by being alive ourselves.