Quotation Explorer - 'Survived'

Kiss your scars. Fall in love with them. They ought to serve as life-affirming reminders—a lingering trace of hope. The only reason we have these scars is because we survived and are still here. - Kamand Kojouri
I’ve always wondered why women are expected to deny their true age. Why? To be a woman of 50 and up is a badge of triumph—a hard-earned certificate that says you survived the shallowness, the violence, the meanness, and the caprice of a male-dominated society without losing your mind! - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Surviving is a basic thing. Getting by. Staying alive in whatever way we can. It doesn't mean we make right choices or drive fine cars or have good jobs. It means we found a way not to die. I survived. - Carolyn Wall
If you fall from a plane onto a river, and survived, it is luck, but if you fall from a plane onto asphalt ground, and survived, then that is a miracle. - M.F. Moonzajer
The past might hurt but don't run from it, repeat it, or punish others for it. Learn from it and be glad that you survived it. - Rob Liano
Jo claimed that the reason people survived breakups was that within days of the amputation, Mother Nature started reminding you of what you had been doing without, what could have been better, all the samll discontents you had been filing away. - Emma Donoghue
Egoism has arisen due to circumstances and circumstances have survived due to egoism. The one whose egoism is gone, for him circumstances are gone. Everything has come into existence because of wrong belief. - Dada Bhagwan
Are you able to proclaim that you have been through some things and you survived it? You are a survivor. And if you are a survivor you are not a victim. You have to change the language that you give to yourself and then you have to change the conversation that you give to others. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. - Oscar Wilde
She thought little of her ordeal. Cruelty was part of nature, like a winter frost; something to be survived and then forgotten (p.689) - Tim Willocks
We have survived the death of our childhood. We are soldiers now, maybe the last soldiers who will ever fight, the Earth’s final and only hope, united as one in the spirit of vengeance. - Rick Yancey
To call yourself an author takes publishing one book. To call yourself an inspirational author is the work of a lifetime that requires being constantly kicked in the stomach, only to get back up on your feet and show the world how you survived it each time. - Shannon L. Alder
High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track. - Scott Westerfeld
The survived souls give strength to the suffering souls. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I can sit here and say I've survived heart break and all those nights I thought I couldn't bare to live without you, yeah I just want to thank them, because I did & now I couldn't imagine a life with you. - Nikki Rowe
I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know. - Ishmael Beah
Don't celebrate how old you are, celebrate the years you survived. - Touaxia Vang
I think it would shock most people if they really knew what we have each survived by the time we graduate high school. - Jennifer Elisabeth
People survived by being cautious, but they got ahead by being bold. - V.E. Schwab
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is "man" himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.
Our strong spirit will survived every situation. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Wondering why you survived don't help you survive - Jeannette Walls (Author)
Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming. - Robert Tew
Only elves and trolls had survived the coming of Man to the discworld: the elves because they were altogether too clever by half, and the trolley folk because they were at least as good as humans at being nasty, spiteful and greedy. - Terry Pratchett
The survived suffered-soul strengthens the suffering souls. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I graciously survived depression, mental-illness and attempt of suicide. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't," she begged, knowing that surely she was trying his patience, that his kindness would stretch just so far, that if he were truly kind he could never have survived as a vampire. - Vivian Vande Velde
I survived schizophrenia. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Our friendship has survived betrayals and our ambitions. Even death is afraid to come between us. Welcome back to my life." ~ Fidelis O Mkparu, author of 'Love's Affliction' ‪#‎authors‬, ‪#‎friendship‬ - Fidelis O. Mkparu
The greatest souls have survived deep distress and mental-ill health. - Lailah Gifty Akita
My heart may be bruised and scarred, bleeding slow drip-drip with every thump and every other thump-thump that widens unsealable wounds. My heart is the strongest part of me. It's survived everything I've thrown at it and much more than it should. - Hubert Martin
These secrets are not secrets per se but are truths hidden from public view. I had to write this book. There had to be a reason I survived to tell this story. - Rebecca Allard
Whoever lives wins. Don't feel guilty about having survived. If you have time to be feeling guilty, work on living a day longer, a minute longer. And once in a while, remember the ones that died before you. That's good enough."Vol 1 Chap 4 - Atsuko Asano
Stop worrying about life, no one survived it. - A.J. Shazad
We survived life by adaptation to the changing situation. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Two great things happened to me. One was that I survived. The other was that I met you, because I knew why - Kamand Kojouri
Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. - Oscar Wilde
No matter how far you have come... No matter how you survived your checkered past... Sometimes, you simply have to make a choice. - Kaleb Kilton
If I had feelings, I probably wouldn’t have even survived. - Richard M. Nixon
Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia. - Meryl Streep
I have survived my first day of chemo and I like this feeling of survival. It’s alive and it’s right and it’s what I will make sure I feel every day for the rest of the life I have left. I make a promise to myself: While I’m dying, I will be completely fucking alive. - Glenn Rockowitz
Even a man who had survived a hundred battle can break in his hundred-and-first. - George R.R. Martin
As I explored my soul, now I know I have survived schizophrenia; hearing voices, reduced social engagement, emotional expression and lack of motivation. - Lailah Gifty Akita
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