#surviving

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. ↗

— Epicurus

#adversity #being #being happy #challenging #courage

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character. ↗

— John Ciardi

#character #further #goes #his #liberation

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#ashamed #better #bring #i #i am

I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer. ↗

— Marcia Wallace

#cancer #hard #i #more #more and more

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

The clock holds me nowhere. Nowhere. Nowhere. There is nothing else but now and the shifting depth of the night. I sit at a table alone smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee and listening and surviving. I should not be here or anywhere. I should not be breathing or taking space. I should not have been given this moment or anything else. I should not have this opportunity again to live. I do not deserve it or deserve anything yet it is here and I am here and I Have it all of it still. I won't have it again. This moment or this chance they are the same and they are mine if I choose them and I do. I want them. Now and as long as I can have them they are both precious and fleeting and gone in the blink of an eye don't waste them. A moment and an opportunity and a life, all in the unseen tick of a clock holding me nowhere. My heart is beating. The walls are pale and quiet. I am surviving. ↗

— James Frey

#living #surviving #life

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult. ↗

— Cristiano Ronaldo

#lose #loss #love #much #person

Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together. ↗

— Josh Silver

#band #being #far #getting #instrument

My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#i #lost #match #never #playing

The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#began #christians #crowd #define #did