"Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arcâ€”where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme."

-- Amanda Ripley

#Survival Quotes #Impossible Quotes #Arcs Quotes

“People tend to have one of three 'styles' of interaction. There are takers, who are always trying to serve themselves; matchers, who are always trying to get equal benefit for themselves and others; and givers, who are always trying to help people.”

Source : "Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success". Book by Adam Grant, www.businessinsider.com. 2013.
“Travel around the world is amazing. New people. New-found family, really.”
“Emotion brings in the dimension of bonding or tuning in: An experience that touches your heart makes the meaning that much more personal.”
“Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.”

Source : "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satire V, line 151,
“Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted to make something.”
“The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it from the moment you are alive you are bound to be concerned with love because love is not just something that happens to you: It is a certain special way of being alive. Love is in fact an intensification of life a completeness a fullness a wholeness of life.”
“I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.”
“To remain neutral in a situation where the laws of the land virtually criticized God for having created men of color was the sort of thing I could not, as a Christian, tolerate.”

Source : "Africa and Freedom". Albert Lutuli's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1961.

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