Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
Laurence Gonzales
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.”
“We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization.”
“To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such.”
“The sun beams are always there. The trick is in seeing them.”
“To survive, you must develop secondary emotions that function in a strategic balance with reason.”
“The world we imagine seems as real as the ones we’ve experienced. We suffuse the model with the emotional values of past realities. And in the thrall of that vision (call it “the plan,” writ large), we go forth and take action. If things don’t go according to the plan, revising such a robust model may be difficult. In an environment that has high objective hazards, the longer it takes to dislodge the imagined world in favor of the real one, the greater the risk. In nature, adaptation is important; the plan is not. It’s a Zen thing. We must plan. But we must be able to let go of the plan, too.”
“To lose everything at such a glorious eternity is far sweeter than to win by plodding through a cautious, painless, featureless life.”
“We think we believe what we know, but we only truly believe what we feel.”
“I am constantly surrounded by a display of natural wonders...It is beauty surrounded by ugly fear. I write in my log that it's a view of heaven from a seat in hell. (survivor after 53 days at sea)”
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Book Keywords:
survival, reality, experience, death, inspirational
