surviving

Surviving isn't around us, but in us.

Positive mind-set is vital for surviving hard-times.

The courage to live brings its own rewards.

My heart had been crush torn and crumble but I'm still here and I'm not broken I'm still fighting my way out

More than most, I know the pain of surviving.

Two great things happened to me. One was that I survived. The other was that I met you, because I knew why

Gold authenticity can only be tested under maximum fire. The same holds true with regard to manhood.

Beauty... Is what you are after a lifetime of struggle in the face of hostility, surviving, and standing scarred and unafraid, triumphant before your enemies.

I talk about writing and write so much because aside from music, it__ the only thing giving me peace and reason and purpose. Everyone is looking for answers but I don__ have them and I__ not the answer, but I feel like if I could see the face of God, I__ be better, healed__bsolved. I feel like a bastard and like I__ pushing a Ponzi scheme every time someone comes to me for guidance and I push them to the __ight_ path when I__ just as lost as they are. And it makes me feel like shit every time someone wants to look up to me, or when people call me strong or brave or amazing or want to tell me how __reat_ I am. And then, the next moment, I__ fine, until the next tide of emotion comes again. I__ just a person who__ had a lot of time to think__ flawed and fucked-up person.

He leans in, resting his weathered hand on the bed. "Treat all the bad things like dreams, Kenzie. That way, no matter how scary or dark they get, you just have to survive until you wake up.

I certainly couldn't have survived my childhood without books. All that deprivation and pain--abuse, broken home, a runaway sister, a brother with cancer--the books allowed me to withstand. They sustained me. I read still, prolifically, with great passion, but never like I read in those days: in those days it was life or death.

My definition of success is not based on achieving the impossible, but rather surviving the probable. And with a threshold that horribly low, simple survival cannot help but become my highest aspiration.

You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all - the race to the egg. And now that you are a giant, why do you even doubt victory against smaller numbers and wider margins? The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.

It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'

You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.

The best thing you can say to someone going through a tragic loss is not that"It's going to be alright"It is:"Hold on tight because this is going to hurt like hell".

For many years eagerly thought by your enemy to destroying your life, it's all one second of mastery for you to save your life from his deadly plans, for you to survive.

We just did an awesome job of not dying.