Miguel Syjuco Quotes

You don't grow up naive in Africa.

Wheels come off? Get on with it. Cope. Survive.

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.

I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?

Our time has experienced greater technological progress than ever existed before, and yet we are faced with the fact that world-wide poverty, hunger, death of children, unemployment, misery and the destruction of nature have not abated but rather to some extent increased. Many peoples are threatened with economic ruin, social disarray, political marginalization and national collapse.

This is a third world environment.

There's going to be good things that get you, and there's going to be bad things that get you, so you better be willing, and your skin better be thick.

I don't believe watching dreams but like to stick to reality. Reality is all about flood, hunger, illness.

Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.

Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

Survivors can't always choose their methods.

I had a very hard life in Kazakhstan.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

My biggest inspiration has been life for me. Basic survival has been my biggest teacher. Surviving in Mumbai for so many years has been a huge ordeal.

I knew racial discrimination at its worst in the 1930s. I lived with the humility of it but I never lost my sense of humor. Humor is the escape valve from the deadly reality of adversity.

I'm a survivor.

Stark inequality, poverty, and unemployment are driving increased social unrest and, consequently, social and economic risk. Environmental deterioration may well intensify social inequality.

As long as you don't fold up and curl up into a ball, you'll be all right.

When you grow up in poverty and learn how to survive it, it's something that stays with you forever.

I've been fighting for my life before and sleeping in cars and trying to find a place to lay my head. I've had situations where I've had nowhere to go. This is the easy part. I overcame life.