Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.
Interpretation
Survival emphasizes the choice to live fully, even in the face of inevitable death.
This quote reflects on the concept of survival as not merely struggling against death, but rather an active choice to embrace life despite its fleeting nature. It suggests that acknowledging mortality is essential, and true survival is about finding peace with the idea of death while living in the present moment, valuing each day as a gift.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges and valuing life.
Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.
Sometimes in our lives we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow.
I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own.
That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.
Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.
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