#viva

The spirit finds a way to be born. Instinct seeks for ways to survive. ↗

— Toba Beta

#instinct #life #spirit #survival-of-the-fittest #life

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

God does not patch up the old life, or make certain repairs on the old life; He gives a new life, through the new birth. ↗

— Kathryn Kuhlman

#god #healing-evangelist #jesus #revivalist #life

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older. ↗

— Hans Selye

#becoming #every #indelible #leaves #little

[...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#life #survival #survivor #life

After we deal and heal...NOT A A SHRED OF EVIDENCE EXISTS THAT LIFE IS SERIOUS .....Jan Marshall ↗

— Jan Marshall

#healing #humor #satire #seniors #survival

These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us? ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#intensity #outgrow #survival #love

The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#love

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly. ↗

— Aminatta Forna

#survival #war #love

Do you know the best way to get your body heat back?" Ethan asked her as he looked her in the eyes and stroked her glossy brown hair. “The way to warm up is to lie next to another person. Naked. ↗

— Amanda Bretz

#romance-novel #survival #love