“Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.”

― Joss Whedon

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”

― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.”

― Leon C. Megginson

“Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.”

― May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

“Survivors aren't always the strongest; sometimes they're the smartest, but more often simply the luckiest.”

― Carrie Ryan, The Dark and Hollow Places

“Some of us are drawn to mountains the way the moon draws the tide. Both the great forests and the mountains live in my bones. They have taught me, humbled me, purified me and changed me.”

― Joan Halifax, The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom