#surviving

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#ambivalent #any #could #i #lap

We're just kinda surviving at a very comfortable level. ↗

— Bruce Johnston

#just #kinda #level #surviving #very

I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy. ↗

— James Longstreet

#avenue #comrades #die #enough #happy

I certainly couldn't have survived my childhood without books. All that deprivation and pain--abuse, broken home, a runaway sister, a brother with cancer--the books allowed me to withstand. They sustained me. I read still, prolifically, with great passion, but never like I read in those days: in those days it was life and death. ~ Junot Diaz, author of 2008 Pulitizer Prize novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ↗

— Leah Price

#reading #surviving #death

So I'll send my parents money, and maybe they can get a bigger place, too. They can even relax when they're older, the way they deserve to. Without having to worry about how they're going to survive. But for now, I'm the one who has to survive. ↗

— Susane Colasanti

#surviving-life #money

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do. ↗

— Alan Watts

#drag #going #living #people #point

I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#battle #church #creek #disbanded #exception

The energy it took to exit mother’s womb is the same force required to manifest a dream...a different kind of struggle. Push, push, push! ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#dreams #force #manifestation #quotes #strength

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving. ↗

— Eddie Bracken

#i #life #oh #surviving #survivor

This is a story about survival. Letting go and learning to let in. Getting along and moving on. The truth about life. The things left unsaid... ↗

— Nadège Richards

#letting-go #life #moving-on #moving-on-and-letting-go #survival-story