#survival

Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser. ↗

— Toba Beta

#law #life #preservation #preserve #rule

Humanity does not ask to be happy.It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, , but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#learning #life #survival #winning #life

The spirit finds a way to be born. Instinct seeks for ways to survive. ↗

— Toba Beta

#instinct #life #spirit #survival-of-the-fittest #life

This is a story about survival. Letting go and learning to let in. Getting along and moving on. The truth about life. The things left unsaid... ↗

— Nadège Richards

#letting-go #life #moving-on #moving-on-and-letting-go #survival-story

These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us? ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#intensity #outgrow #survival #love

As long as it’s an every man for himself kind of world, men will always be for themselves. - Mayor Bentley in 'Tilt ↗

— Ashley Chappell

#survival #men

It's all in the reflexes. ↗

— "Jack Burton" (Kurt Russell)

#prescience #reflexes #survival #survival-instinct #movies

Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense. ↗

— Criss Jami

#human #human-nature #judging #judgmental #logic

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you. ↗

— Rick Yancey

#apocalypse #cassie #choices #fiction #horror

Why would you take a drug that is guaranteed to kill you in forty years? One reason, right? It's the only thing that will stop you dying tomorrow. ↗

— Sharon Moalem

#survival-of-the-sickest #science