"My father looked on in disbelief, overwhelmed that his son had been taught to eat glass and relish it."

Survival, Hardship, Strength, Adaptation

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"My father looked on in disbelief, overwhelmed that his son had been taught to eat glass and relish it."

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"When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it."

David Levithan, American Author

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"I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion.Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then."There is no other stream," said the Lion."

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"If you allow coldness to engulf you before winter, season is helpless to help you."

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"I am born here among the monsters, if I have to survive I must act like one of them."

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"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"We're victors, remember? We're the ones who can survive anything they throw at us."

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"Sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it."

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"Just when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die."

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"The best way to stay safe is, let them think your insane."

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"The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities."

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"Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things."

Culture

"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."

Travel

"My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn't need to -- because, given the right conditions, the stories activated, sowing themselves."

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"Stories are a communal currency of humanity."

Storytelling

"Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom."

Reading

"My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts."

Learning

"Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends."

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"For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home."

Detachment

"The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless."

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"During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide."

Isolation