1,738 Quotes About Survival

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

Forgive yourself for what you had to do while in survival mode and move forward.

When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness, there are three things that can show you the way: instinct to survive, the knowledge of navigation, creative imagination. Without them, you are lost.

Sometimes a moment of survival is about navigating between rage and joy.

Our fitness to survive in life depends on our ability to change, according to the changes that the world demands.

To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.

I think repressing what happened is what saved me in my childhood. I was able to use my imagination to create happy events, but a little girl can carry only so much on her own.

Even if our survival skills have become impediments we would like to let go of because they have ceased to serve us, we can still love ourselves with them. In appreciation of our survival, we can be awed at how our resources brought us through, even when these resources were things like indifference, a wall of rage, a cold heart…We learn to embrace ourselves as humans with faults and problems.

From The Necessity of Finance book: "In our modern civilization, to struggle financially means to struggle in every aspect of life (Criniti, 2013, p. 21).