#viva

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#dawn #does #eclipse #endless #entitled

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself. ↗

— Albert Camus

#going-on #suicide #survival #courage

We could do it, you know." "What?" "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#love #survival #ya #young-adult #life

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#begins #humanity #man #only #self-interest

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. ↗

— William Glasser

#belonging #driven #five #fun #genetic

Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#survival

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. ↗

— Aristotle

#contemplation #depends #life #mere #power

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

#first #fortitude #i #just #learned

Such beauty, he thought, was too perfect to have come about by mere chance. That day in the center of the Pacific was, to him, a gift crafted deliberately, compassionately, for him and Phil. Joyful and grateful in the midst of slow dying, the two men bathed in that day until sunset brought is, and their time in the doldrums, to an end. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#survival #beauty

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#identities #key #liberty #modern #modern world