#viv

I've always believed in survival. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#believed #i #survival

Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life ↗

— Lynette Gould

#guilt #healing #incest #memories #rape

Whenever there is love beyond boundaries .... Whenever trust flows deeper than oceans .... Nevertheless, a Trial is born .... You pass that trial, sacred you shall be .... if you don't, your are immortal !!!! ↗

— M.W.Latif

#intimate #joy #life #life-experience #life-philosophy

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent. ↗

— Susanna Kaysen

#survival #susanna-kaysen #talent #talent

Come aboard if your destination is oblivion - it should be our next stop. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life

Simple Complex systems can arise from simple rules. It's not that we want to survive, it's that we've been drugged and made to act as if we do while all the while the sea breaks and rolls, painlessly, under. If we're not copying it, we're lonely. Is this the knowledge that demands to be passed down? Time is made from swatches of heaven and hell. If we're not killing it, we're hungry. ↗

— Rae Armantrout

#survival #time #life

Sasha's green eyes were right up against yours, the lashes interlocking. "In Naples," she said, "there were kids who were just lost. You knew they were never going to get back to what they'd been, or have a normal life. And then there were other ones who you thought, maybe they will." ... You opened your eyes, which you hadn't realized were shut again. "what I'm saying is, We're the survivors," Sasha said. ... "Not everyone is. But we are. Okay? ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#living #survival #life

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#war #enemy

One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion. ↗

— Michael Grant

#survival #teens #teacher

Here is the world. It is not a safe place, but however frightening and bewildering life may become, we can survive our fears, grab them by the wolf ’s tail as Peter did, and make peace with the world. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#fear #peter-the-wolf #safety #survival #survive