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“Getting started, keeping going, getting started again - in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm not only of achievement but of survival, the ground of convinced action, the basis of self-esteem and the guarantee of credibility in your lives, credibility to yourselves as well as to others.”

Wells Art Self Seems Action Self Esteem Essentials Achievement Survival Bases Convinced Esteem Rhythm Guarantees Credibility Getting Started

Author:Seamus Heaney

“In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.”

World Needs Change Violence Achieve Essentials Achievement Survival Inevitable Nonviolence Black History Change Is Inevitable Inevitable Change

Book:A way out of no way: the spiritual memoirs of Andrew Young

Source: A way out of no way: the spiritual memoirs of Andrew Young

“Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only physical survival and achievement—Demeter's grain and fruit—it is also concerned with guiding a child to his or her unknown depths and the mystery of fate.”

Children Passion Fate Mystery Achievement Survival Concerned Fruit Depth Heat Grain Mothering Passion For Life Demeter Soulfulness

Book:Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life

Source: Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life

“In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement since so many people die early. You see an elderly person, you want to congratulate them on their longevity, ask the secret of survival. A plump person is envied because they aren't scraping by like the majority of us. But here is different. Wrinkles aren't desirable. A round belly isn't a sign of success.”

People Want Persons Different Dies Asks Secret Achievement Survival Majority Rounds Longevity Desirable Belly Elderly Wrinkles Envied Scraping District 12

Book:The Hunger Games Trilogy

Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy

“But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.”

Opportunity Nations Prayer Development Achievement Survival Luck Available Concrete Opportunity For Success

Author:Ibrahim Babangida

“The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than by compulsion; if in the process we learn to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task.”

Source: A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat

“Therefore, for me, living true to my self may be defined as: Making the daily choices in all areas of my life that are in the best interests of my survival, evolution and prosperity, that aid the ongoing achievement of the highest physical, mental and spiritual objectives of which I am capable, that are based on the most correct assessment of reality I have available, and that honor the evolving truth of who I am and who I choose to be, all in the personal pursuit of freedom, function, fun, as well as the highest good of all.”