#survival

We lay there with our bodies touching, and as I shook, a powerful knowledge took hold. He had done this thing to me and I had lived. That was all. I was still breathing. I heard his heart. I smelled his breath. The dark earth around us smelled like what it was, moist dirt where animals lived their daily lives. I could have yelled for hours. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#rape #survival #love

Money is key to survival. Love is key to happiness. ↗

— Nadair Desmar

#life #survival #love

Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival. ↗

— Jacque Fresco

#control #earth #longer #monetary #our

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

— C. S. Lewis

#art #give #like #philosophy #rather

The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#am #damn #democracy #freedom #give

She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#survival #humor

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#best #ingredients #survival

My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival. ↗

— Sonia Rykiel

#complete #question #shows #survival #swallows

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. ↗

— Jane Wagner

#delude #important #may #survival #tool

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#certainly #chance #i #i think #maybe