“I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.” FactsAgeOur LivesGrewGrew UpSurvivalHorseBellsHarnessAntiquesSaddlesSleighs Author:Paul Engle
“To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities of our lives gives us motivation for action. For you are not powerless... You know why the hard questions must be asked. It is not altruism, it is self-preservation-survival.” KnowsGivingSelfHardReasonRealityActionFacesLife IsMotivationEnemyOur LivesDespairSurvivalToolsAltruismPreservationPowerlessSelf PreservationHard Questions Author:Audre Lorde
“One has a more practical survival level, that's the mind function. The heart function obviously has an internal level that has to do with the quality of developing perceptions, feelings, the self. And the spirit level has to do with the pondering part of our lives.” MindHeartSelfFeelingsSpiritLevelsQualityOur LivesPerceptionSurvivalFunctionPracticalsDevelopingInternalsPondering Author:Caroline Myss
“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.” IfsKnowsChildrenWaterKnow HowKnowingOur LivesSurvivalCrossesIncrediblesAustraliaLive BySwimNot Knowing Author:Eric Bana
“My grandmother instilled in me a toughness that comes with survival. She was a tough lady and never truly enjoyed her life. She would always worry about things and I would tell her that it wasn't going to get her anywhere and it didn't. I wasn't even that smart back then, but I knew that worrying about everyone else wasn't good for her health. As Latinos, we stress and worry so much about the future when the future is today. As long as we protect what's good in our lives, we will be all right.” LongTodayWorryOur LivesProtectSurvivalSmartToughStressEnjoyedGrandmotherMy GrandmotherLatinoToughnessStress And WorryTough Lady Author:George Lopez
“We live within the environment. So that directly relates with our survival, our life. So through that way, more concern of well being of humanity, then naturally concerned about environment.” WayWellsHumanityEnvironmentOur LivesSurvivalConcernConcernedRelateWell Being Author:Dalai Lama
“Another werewolf thing. Like most animals, we spent a large part of our lives engaged in the three Fs of basic survival. Feeding, fighting and... reproduction.” FightingThreeAnimalOur LivesSurvivalEngagedFeedingWerewolfReproduction Book:Stolen Source: Stolen
“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
“As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being only incidental to this aim. To stay alive under almost any circumstances is a sickness with us. Nothing could be more unhealthy than to “watch one’s health” as a means of stalling death. The lengths we will go as procrastinators of that last gasp only demonstrate a morbid dread of that event. By contrast, our fear of suffering is deficient.” YearsMeanLastsSufferingNumbersWatchesOur LivesAliveEventsCircumstancesSurvivalAimSpeciesSicknessLengthContrastDreadReductionUnhealthyStaying AliveMorbidProcrastinatorStalling Author:Thomas Ligotti
“Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.” KnowsLifeSeemsAbleLife IsOur LivesDivineDespairSurvivalDeeperDivinityDegradation Author:William James
“Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth. To know the truth is to appropriate it, for it is not mainly reflection and theory. Truth is divine action entering our lives and creating the human action of liberation.” PeopleIfsKnowsHumansActionOur LivesDivineTheoryDependsTruth IsCreatingSurvivalReflectionRecognitionLiberationAppropriateEnteringUntruthHuman Actions Author:James H. Cone
“Why do we so mindlessly abuse our planet, our only home? The answer to that lies in each of us. Therefore, we will strive to bring about understanding that we are--each one of us--responsible for more than just ourselves, our family, our football team, our country, or our own kind; that there is more to life than just these things. That each one of us must also bring the natural world back into its proper place in our lives, and realize that doing so is not some lofty ideal but a vital part of our personal survival.” WorldKindCountryHomeLyingUnderstandingRealizingNaturalAnswersOur LivesTeamFootballPlanetsSurvivalIdealsAbuseResponsibleStriveOur CountryOur FamilyOur PlanetNatural WorldLoftyFootball TeamMore To Life Author:Lawrence Anthony
“Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in which body, mind, and nature are the same. This retreat from wonder, the backing away like lobsters into safe crannies, the desperate instinct that our life passes unlived, is reflected in proliferation without joy, corrosive money rot, the gross befouling of the earth and air and water from which we came.” MindBodyEarthJoyWaterWonderOur LivesAirPureSafeSurvivalInstinctGrantedDesperateRetreatGrossFear Of DeathProliferationLobsterAir And WaterBacking Away Book:The Snow Leopard Source: The Snow Leopard
“We Aryans are those of European descent who are racially conscious and who have committed our lives to our people's survival and evolutionary advancement. We shall do our duty. We shall not surrender our freedom and our very existence to Jewish or any other power. We shall preserve our heritage and our hard-won rights and freedoms. We shall guide our people up the evolutionary stairway to the stars.” PeopleHardStarsExistenceOur LivesRightsDutySurvivalConsciousCommittedGuidesSurrenderPreservesHeritageAdvancementDescentRights And FreedomsKu Klux KlanStairways Author:David Duke