War is about survival, not perfection.

Art is a way of survival.

I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.

How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they’re the very things we kill.

I think the pressure has also helped me want to rise above that pressure, and it has helped in accelerating the healing process. It’s helped give me a drive. I have a definite survival drive, and the pressure gave me a drive to get on top of it.

Escapism is survival to me.

In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.

Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two’s is the most important thing. Kids get heavy. Quite literally. They’re heavy to lift up when they’re throwing tantrums.

Since the survival impulse in nature is transmuted into two different and contradictory spiritualized forms, which we may briefly designate as the will-to-live-truly and the will-to-power, man is at variance with himself. The power of the second impulse places him more fundamentally in conflict with his fellowman than democratic liberalism realizes.

In the end, what matters is this: I survived.

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.

In the game of life, survival is only part of the battle.

Music companies and buyers are not too encouraging towards independent musicians. Everyone wants to play safe and go with established names, but unless one breaks this routine, no new talent will come and survive.

It is the very survival of the streets that makes children pick up guns in Somalia, not some older, wide-eyed rebel leader. My intimate experiences during these years are something which I have shared with people through my music but am very careful about how they are addressed.

People who live in poor countries have to be entrepreneurial even just to survive.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name – and moving on.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

I have a hot memory, but I know I’ve forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

When you’re surrounded by flowers, you breath better.

Appreciate your surroundings and be grateful for it and that’s when good things happen.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

We’ve been looking for the enemy for some time now. We’ve finally found him. We’re surrounded. That simplifies things.

The last time I took drugs, I probably took more than anybody could survive.

What is a normal childhood? We weren’t rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn’t save any money.

As I began to love myself I stopped craving a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

I believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for oneself, one’s own family, or nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival.

No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy

In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

If intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to shape it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies — to use it as cats use stealth, as katydids use camouflage — to make it the tool of our survival.

Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily moving and beautiful experience.

If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

They say: only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive

Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we’ve lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of war, or what we have now, which is the psychological equivalent of war, does the nuclear family prevail, because it’s the most mobile unit that can ensure the survival of the species. But for the full flowering of the human spirit, we need groups, tribes.

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world

It makes me self-conscious. It’s because I’m known, in the limelight, that it’s getting all the gravy, but if you knew, if you saw some of the people who make it possible for UNICEF to help these children survive. These are the people who do the jobs-the unknowns, whose names you will never know…I at least get a dollar a year, but they don’t.

Survival is the greatest gift of love

For to survive in the mount of this dragon we call America, we have had to learn this first and most vital lesson – that we were never meant to survive. Not as human beings

If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.

I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival

For me, life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

I’m not into politics, I’m into survival.

People say sometimes that beauty is only superficial. That may be so, but at least it is not so superficial as thought is. To me, beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long. There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly. This hypothetical Martian would probably conclude that human beings were an evolutionary error.

As gang members, as young dudes in the streets, especially in L.A., we’re the effect of a situation. We didn’t wake up and create our own mind-state and our environment; we adapted our survival instincts

You have to eat and sleep just enough to survive

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival.

The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever.

The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

Success is survival.

Love is the only engine of survival.

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

Justice, though slow, is sure

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire

The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Every single time I entered the stage and looked at the lights and listened to the fans, it is something which is a unique experience for me.

I never let my guard down, even when I’m happy

No love can survive muteness.

I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.