"Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Survival, Adaptation, Comparison, Wisdom

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"Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean."

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"The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"Everybody who is alive is a survivor, and everybody who is dead isn't," I said."So everybody alive must have the Survivor's Syndrome. It's that or death. I am so damn sick of people telling me proudly that they are survivors!"

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"Humanity does not ask us 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, American Writer

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"I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody."

Stephen King, American Author

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"A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim toward reproduction."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"If we can somehow survive this world, we would've achieved something in this world."

Fakeer Ishavardas, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people - we go on.''We take a beatin' all the time.''I know.' Ma chuckled. 'Maybe that makes us tough. Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good, an' they die out. But, Tom, we keep a-comin'. Don' you fret none, Tom. A different time's comin'."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Survival, Community, Hope, Time

"The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain."

Ta-Nehisi Coates, American Writer

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"They had slept in the shelter of the ruins, though neither of them really got true rest."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

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