#viv

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development. ↗

— William Kirby

#chinese #chinese government #development #economic #economic development

People wait in line to see me, saying there's plenty of living to be done even if you have an HIV diagnosis. People say they are 10- or 15-year survivors and still moving forward. ↗

— Greg Louganis

#done #even #forward #hiv #line

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#enough #filmmaker #going #good #got

It is difficult to say today whether the Battle of Kosovo was a defeat or a victory for the Serbian people, whether thanks to it we fell into slavery or we survived in this slavery. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#defeat #difficult #fell #into #kosovo

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