#survival

She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It would be a kind of test, like surviving on a desert island--but that's what a marriage was, wasn't it? They would have to help each other or die. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#marriage #support #survival #test #marriage

You need to be proud of the fact that you survived everything you went through as a child. Don't seperate yourself from that life. Embrace it, because I'm so fucking proud of you. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#embrace #inspirational #life #proud #survival

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#best #commonly #competition #does #fittest

The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#am #damn #democracy #freedom #give

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands? ↗

— Aberjhani

#faith #heaven #hope #humanity #massacre

She was beginning to realize people could survive most things. Not because thy were brave or strong, but because there wasn't any choice. ↗

— Candice Proctor

#choices #courage #survival #courage

One thing you have to realize from now on is that it doesn't matter if this is a dream or not. Survival depends on what you do, not what you think. ↗

— Rebecca McKinsey

#life-experience #survival #thought-provoking #thoughts-on-life #dreams

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope. ↗

— Aberjhani

#classic-books #famous-quotes #famous-quotes-from-classic-books #grace #haiku

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away. ↗

— Yann Martel

#dreams

Survival is an ancient dream Life is nothing but an everlasting illusion Nothing is Real Don’t believe in illusion, Remember me, I am here … ↗

— Rixa White

#believe-in-illusion #emptiness #empty #everlasting-illusion #illusion