#surviving

Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic. ↗

— Aberjhani

#angels #courage #faith #haiku #haikus

But I also knew that if he turned away from me at this moment, somehow I would survive that, and I would find a way to flourish like the yard that still bloomed and grew around my family home. I'm Sookie Stackhouse. I belong here. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#flourishing #survival #surviving #family

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#live #may #on the contrary #order #succeed

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#memoir #recovery #suicide #surviving #transformation

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#anxious #communicate #difficulty #facts #fits

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images. ↗

— Lance Loud

#believe #culture #gauge #gay #homophobic

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#been #concentration #greatest #inside #los

I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#america #because #came #clothes #community

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off. ↗

— Pat Oliphant

#does #down #every #go #good