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“We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.”

People Knows Humans War Strong Know How Survival Capacity Tragedy Renewal Amazing Things Human Capacity Hidden Strength

Author:Isabel Allende

“We live our lives by the water and if you don't know how to swim in Australia, it's like not knowing how to cross a road. It's an incredible survival thing that you really must learn when you're a child.”

Ifs Knows Children Water Know How Knowing Our Lives Survival Crosses Incredibles Australia Live By Swim Not Knowing

Author:Eric Bana

“There is a human longing to go back to other times. We all know how when we were children we asked our parents, "What was it like when you were a kid?" I think it probably has something to do with our survival as a species.”

Thinking Knows Humans Children Kids Parent Know How Survival Longing Species

Author:David McCullough

“Women are far more likely to follow orders to evacuate, especially women with children. At the same time, women were much more likely to die during the South Asian tsunami. In some villages it was 3 to 1. And that was party because of the average strength it takes to hold onto something. Also it was cultural; women were less likely to know how to swim, as were children. So much of this is based on how we develop our own survival skills before something goes wrong: Even if nothing goes wrong, it might be good to know how to swim.”

Ifs Knows Children Might Order Dies Party Know How Skills Survival South Average Be Good Swim Village Asian Tsunami Survival Skills

Author:Amanda Ripley

“I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to make a fire with sticks and I know how to build a shelter, but I live 90 percent of my life in an urban environment, so these skills aren't really going to help me because there aren't trees that grow in Los Angeles that I can just take a branch and make fire out of, because that wood isn't conducive for that. So I started learning urban survival skills.”

“I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel talent is that I can make friends with anybody. I can make friends with the dead. If there isn’t anyone else around to talk to, I could probably make friends with a four-foot-tall pile of sheetrock. That is why I’m not afraid to travel to the most remote places in the world, not if there are human beings there to meet. People asked me before I left, “do you have friends [there]?’ and I would just shake my head no, thinking to myself, But I will.”

“He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that--it didn't work.”

Knows Long Important Feelings Dark Know How Cry Survival Sorry Corners Working It Caves Self Pity Feeling Sorry Feeling Sorry For Yourself Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself

Book:Hatchet

Source: Hatchet

“I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how”

Knows Believe Children School I Believe Know How Survival Madness Mad Tragic Survivor One Time

Book:Elie Wiesel: Conversations

Source: Elie Wiesel: Conversations

“In the end, the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity.”

Knows Way Ends Life Is Creativity Know How Struggle Conflict Survival Triumph Cooperation Workplace Long Life Aggressors Struggle For Survival

Book:The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems

Source: The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems

“I train like I'm training for the Olympics or for a Mr. America contest, the way I've always trained my whole life. You see, life is a battlefield. Life is survival of the fittest... How many healthy people do you know? How many happy people do you know? Think about it. People work at dying, they don't work at living. My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth--and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years.”

“I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.”

Knows Done Shows Felt Know How Havens Survival Critics Finished

Author:Vic Morrow