“Be a man!… What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.” ? H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
“There is no pride when it comes to survival, only determination.” ? Anthony Liccione
“It’s important to have fun. Survival is more than making sure we have enough food and water.” ? Scott Cramer, Night of the Purple Moon
“Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey–even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.” ? John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
“And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.” Luke 17:5 (KJV)
“In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.” Leviticus 27:24 (KJV)
“At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.” ? Michael Crichton, The Lost World
“To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.” ? Louis Zamperini, Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian’s Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II
“You know,” Marion said, “I met a woman once when I was a teenager. I knew she had gone through a lot but she was so strong, so compassionate. I asked her how she could be the way she was, and you know what she told me?” Hadley shook her head. “She said, ‘You can be broken, or broken open. That choice is yours.” ? Erica Bauermeister, Joy for Beginners
“Survival often demands our courage.” ? David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
“And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy. And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go; and answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him …
“If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also in their acting with hostility against Me— I also was acting with hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies—or if their uncircumcised heart becomes humbled so that they then make amends for their iniquity, then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also My covenant with Isaac, and My covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land.” Leviticus 26:40-42 (KJV)
“But you need to make sure that the last thing you remember about today isn’t that you fell down, it’s that you got back up again. That’s what we do when bad things happen to us.” ? Michael Rowe, Wild Fell
“We all have our personal Andes.” ? Nando Parrado, Miracle in the Andes
“Please challenge me because whenever I am challenged, I learn a way to survive and a brilliant technique to fight.” ? Rohan Nath