A Quote by Jack London

Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

Jack London

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Jack London
American - Novelist
January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916

Certainly survival is important- very important- but at some point surviving wasn't enough. I felt ready to complete my surviving journey and start thriving and just living.

Sark

You are not living, you are surviving.

Michael Scott

You have no sense of what war is like. You have no idea what it means to see those you love fall. You cannot possibly understand what it is to fight for what you believe, and how sometimes you have to fight with words and dreams after all the weapons have been put away. You serve a cold god, surviving on his power for thousands of years without ever living!

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

Charles de Lint

Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way.

George C. Wolfe

And so it is true in this sense that there is essentially but one religion, the religion of the living God. For to live in the conscious realisation of the fact that God lives in us, is indeed the life of our life, and that in ourselves we have no independent life, and hence no power, is the one great fact of all true religion, even as it is the one great fact of human life. Religion, therefore, at its purest, and life at its truest, are essentially and necessarily one and the same.

Ralph Waldo Trine

It always helps to know that other parents with special-needs children are surviving, and surviving well.

Joni Eareckson Tada

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

Alan Watts

The fact is that you literally, by definition, cannot have a Jewish state and a democratic state and have a whole bunch of Palestinians in it who are living under military rule while the rest of the country is living under civil rule, and they have different rights and different - it's just not a democracy.

John F. Kerry

Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.

Simon Van Booy

I close my eyes and black out the day. The exhaustion of living through it, surviving.

Julie Anne Peters

Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well-- here is the truth-- you have to talk yourself out of it.

Chris Cleave

A fact was the hard outer cover of meaning, and meaning was the soft living stuff inside a fact. Fact and meaning were the driving cogs of living. If the gear of fact drove the gear of meaning, then they revolved in opposite directions, but put the gear of fantasy between the two and they both revolved in the same direction. Fantasy was and is important; it leads to heaven knows where, but follow it and see. Sometimes it pays off.

Fynn

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.

James Patterson

There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving. I am not a religious man per se...but for me, to go to sea is to get a glimpse of the face of God. At sea I am reminded of my insignificance-of all men's insignificance. It is a wonderful feeling to be so humbled.