Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai LamaWhen you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.
Joyce MeyerLife is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.
Muhammad AliI was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.
Kurt VonnegutWhy does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody AllenMy mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
Dave GrohlVictory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Winston ChurchillFriendship 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. LewisThis is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
Charlie ChaplinThe ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
AristotleSalvation and Christ’s love is a gift. You don’t earn it. You’ve got to receive that gift.
Joel OsteenIn all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.
John MuirFor modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.
Alexander PopeSoldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.
Alexander the GreatBut what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.
Barack ObamaTo survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
George OrwellIf you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Dalai LamaAfter a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
Elvis PresleyThere is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
Ernest HemingwayHowever weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.
Charles SpurgeonWe make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
Stephen KingLove is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinExtinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Carl SaganWe’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.
Richard BransonIt was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
Hunter S. ThompsonSacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.
Lou HoltzKeeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
Stephen HawkingAmerica is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.
Alice WalkerThe peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.
J. Robert OppenheimerWe should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIn this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
Noam ChomskyDon’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
Karl LagerfeldAny man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
Douglas AdamsIf 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.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.
Billy GrahamI have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.
Charles BukowskiNow I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.
Charles SpurgeonIt has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Arthur C. ClarkeWe allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
Maya AngelouNot many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.
Christopher HitchensWhen you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.
Wayne DyerSomeone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… ‚How to Build a Boat.‘
Steven WrightPhysical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.
Paulo CoelhoI’ve been through natural disasters. I lived down in Miami and was down there for Hurricane Andrew which was a Category 5. There were members of my family that thought they were going to die. Everyone was in the bathtub.
Dwayne JohnsonThe world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the survival of our human species: access by all the peoples to the material resources of this planet.
Fidel CastroIf there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
Noam ChomskyLuck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.
Hunter S. ThompsonWhat the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.
Alan WattsI believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.
Joel OsteenA Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinYou’ve gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we’re just nice, sort of ‚death by cupcake.‘
BonoBlessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Jesus ChristGrace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.
Pope FrancisA divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.
Margaret AtwoodLife is warfare.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaMany people say that this is not an easy issue, we cannot just say that this is how it is, it’s not black and white. But I say that this is black and white. Either we stop the emissions or we don’t. There are no gray areas when it comes to survival.
Greta ThunbergTo live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Friedrich NietzscheI have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.
Erma BombeckI have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.
John MuirIt has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.
Jane Goodall