“It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.” HappensForceSurvivalFunctionEquilibriumSurvival Of The FittestMultiplicationExternal Forces Author:Herbert Spencer
“Killing a cop just because he's a cop, that'll happen. And that should happen. And there's nothing inhuman about it at all. It's survival. It's the most human thing in the world.” WorldShouldHumansHappensSurvivalKillingActivismCopInhuman Author:Bernardine Dohrn
“Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.” HumansImportantHappensBrainEventsSurvivalTrackThings HappenBad ThingsMechanismHuman BrainAdeptBad Things HappenAdaptive Author:David Perlmutter
“Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.” MayMeanEndsWholeHappensSocialProcessStepsProgressConditionsSurvivalEthicalCosmicEvery StepSocial ProgressSubstitution Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley
“The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to simple survival until death happens along. So I am engaged in striving to maintain equilibrium sufficient to at least realize survival in a way to astound the gods.” MenWayHappensRealizingSimpleCreativeLimitsSurvivalFunctionStriveSufficientEngagedEquilibriumEndeavourCreative Work Author:L. Ron Hubbard
“You see this incredible capacity for replication in nature, survival, development, all of these things that are around us all the time in nature that just happen. By comparison, human life is really, really complicated. We're gifted animals, but we are so complicated. Nothing is easy for us, except maybe eating too much.” HumansHappensLife IsEasyAnimalToo MuchDevelopmentEatingSurvivalCapacityIncrediblesComplicatedHuman LifeComparisonGiftedReplicationNothing Is Easy Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“When bad things happen, part of us might go away. It's a survival technique. You can't stand to be around when there's so much grief or pain in your life so part of you goes away. Shamans call this soul loss.” SoulMightHappensPainLossGriefSurvivalTechniqueThings HappenGoing AwayBad ThingsBad Things HappenWhen Bad Things Happen Author:Robert Moss
“Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated. - Harry Dresden, Changes, Jim Butcher” WayGivingFeelsDoeProblemHappensRunningSurvivalSolutionsRidiculousCirclesTraitsSparesParanoiaButchersDresdenHarry DresdenSpare TimeVindicated Book:The Dresden Files Collection 7-12 Source: The Dresden Files Collection 7-12
“The emotion of fear often works overtime. Even when there is no immediate threat, our body may remain tight and on guard, our mind narrowed to focus on what might go wrong. When this happens, fear is no longer functioning to secure our survival. We are caught in the trance of fear and our moment-to-moment experience becomes bound in reactivity. We spend our time and energy defending our life rather than living it fully.” MindMayMomentsBodyMightHappensEnergyEmotionFocusOur LivesSurvivalThreatBoundsCaughtSecureOur TimeTime And EnergyTranceReactivity Author:Tara Brach
“If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayHappensAbleUsedFightingStrongQualityGoneWindSurvivalBraveThemeSurvivorLackingCatastropheUpheavalGumption Author:Margaret Mitchell
“If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.” IfsMenLifeShouldWellsStillsMatterWholeHappensLeftFailingHonestyBalanceSurvivalNo Matter WhatDisasterLive LifeRight ThingMisfortunesBalancedMagnificentEmphasisSymmetrical Author:Orison Swett Marden
“Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain -if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.” IfsMayEndsHappensPainDealsSurvivalRewardsDetermineMissionsAccomplishedMissions In Life Author:Richard M. Nixon
“You love fear. The ending of fear is death, and you don't want that to happen. I am not talking of wiping out the phobias of the body. They are necessary for survival. The death of fear is the only death.” WantBodyHappensTalkingSurvivalOvercoming FearNot TalkingPhobiaFear Of LoveWiping Out Author:U.G. Krishnamurti
“Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme.” SeemsHappensLostSituationImpossibleSurvivalExtremesUnfamiliarArcsSlopesParalysis Author:Amanda Ripley
“The people of the Third World need our sympathetic understanding and, much more than that, they need our help. We can provide them with a margin of survival by internal disruption in the United States. Whether they can succeed against the kind of brutality we impose on them depends in large part on what happens here.” PeopleWorldNeedsKindStatesHelpingHappensUnderstandingUnitedUnited StatesCollegeDependsSucceedSurvivalThirdsInternalsMarginsSympatheticBrutalityThird WorldDisruptionObnoxious Book:How the World Works Source: How the World Works