Survival Instinct Quotes

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Jacent Mary Mpalyenkana
“You don’t become tough by just wishing it. You become tough by being hit so many times by people’s, and especially life’s blows--that you eventually learn how to avoid the blows, and most importantly be more strategic about survival.

So, if you being “hit” Left, East and Center today, trust me when I say that: “thank God for the training.”
Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

Barbara Kingsolver
“God hates us," I said.

"Don't blame God for what ants have to do. We all get hungry. Congolese people are not so different from Congolese ants."

"They have to swarm over a village and eat other people alive?"

"When they are pushed down long enough they will rise up. If they bite you, they are trying to fix things in the only way they know.”
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Shōhei Ōoka
“When I felt ill and was on the way to becoming a burden to the other men, I noticed a growing chill in their attitude toward me. For people like us, living day and night on the brink of danger, the normal instinct of survival seems to strike inward, like a disease, distorting the personality and removing all motives other than those of sheer self-interest. That is why this afternoon I did not wait to go and tell my former comrades-in-arms what had happened to me. For one thing, they probably already knew; besides, it seemed unfair to risk awakening their dormant sense of humanity.”
Shōhei Ōoka, Fires on the Plain