S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Surviving and thriving in the wake of my mothers loss, I learned to believe in God. He has a plan, if you pay attention to the signs. I am inspired by the absolute proof of miracles.”
“Surviving cancer treatment is like coming home from war.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“Surviving is about need. Living is about want.”
Source: Monarchs and Mendicants
“Surviving is all in the mind.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“Surviving is good, but overcoming is better.”
“Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.”
“Surviving is much more painful than death.”
Source: Command Authority
“Surviving is one thing," he said quietly, his voice suddenly calmer, "but you've got to have a reason to do it. There's no point in living if you don't have anything worth living for.”
Source: Autumn
“Surviving is the only glory in war.”
“Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water.”
Source: Breath
“Surviving it provided validation of who and what they were, of their ability to confront and defeat the death that was constantly stalking them.”
Source: The Gypsy Morph
“Surviving means being born over and over.”
“Surviving something impossibly hard — supported by meaningful connection and our own inner strength — makes us more alive. More purpose-driven, more prioritized, more focused, more aware, more connected. More human. By bringing loss out of the shadows, we can change our lives for the better.”
“Surviving the death of a loved one...one day at a time.”
“Surviving the first round is never my aim. Ideally, I'd be in one group with Brazil, Argentina and Germany. Then I'd have lost two rivals after the first round. That's how I think. Idealisitic.”
“Surviving the grind of 18-hour days and getting up at four in the morning to work out for an hour so I'd have the energy to do it again the next day. I did not know I had that discipline. I did not know I had the discipline to learn a seven-page scene in three hours to shoot that day or the next day. I didn't know that I was capable of realizing that potential.”
“Surviving the past is evidence you can bear the present and conquer the future.”
“Surviving war is an excellent training process. If it weren't so brutal, I 'd recommend it as an excellent start-up course in life. I feel that over years of endurance, hard work and perseverance of determination and conviction, of claiming our rights to stay alive, to be free and to be ourselves, of fighting the biggest wars as much as the smaller ones, our will can indeed move mountains for us.”
Source: I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman
“Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .”
“Surviving, that's my plan.”
“Survivor has been such a hit, and out of that have come so many interesting stories from people that we don't see on the big screen. We have helped make them incredible celebrities.”
“Survivor is like rock 'n' roll - you can do what you want.”
“Survivor" is not a label you choose for yourself.”
“Survivor is not the one,
Bearing all the pain in heart;
But the one who knew,
When to let go and grew.”
Source: Embracing Bliss
“Survivor Series is something that was very surreal to me to be a part of, but now, I just want to do it again.”
“Survivor species tend to have huge populations, so they can afford to lose many individuals and still survive as a species. They also tend to be small. If you're small, you need less food - which is great in a situation where famine is everywhere.”
“Survivors' accounts reveal activities which are not only criminal but deliberately and brutally sadistic almost beyond belief.”
“Survivors are cooperators. In order to survive in anything we need others to cooperate with or partner with.”
“Survivors are damaged to different degrees by their experiences. This does not depend on what happened physically. A Survivor who has been raped will not necessarily be more damaged than a Survivor who has been touched. The degree of damage depend on the degree of traumatic sexualization, stigmatization, betrayal and powerlessness, the child has experienced. This in turn depends on a number of factors such as:
* who the abuser was;
* how many abusers were involved;
* if the abuser was same-sex or opposite sex;
* what took place;
* what was said;
* how long the abuse went on for;
* How the child felt and how she interpreted what was happening;
* if the child was otherwise happy and supported;
* how other people reacted to the disclosure or discovery of the abuse;
* how old the child was”
Source: Breaking Free: Help for survivors of child sexual abuse
“Survivors are frequently too exhausted and traumatized to push through a public lawsuit, and enablers and abusers know this. Some attorneys will suggest a quiet settlement with a nondisclosure agreement (NDA), promising the victim fast relief and a smoother process. Getting abusers and enablers to agree is rarely a problem because an NDA ensures the victim's silence...Attorneys who don't want to put much time and effort into the process can bind survivors to silence at a time when they are too vulnerable to fight back or even know better, and then those lawyers walk away with a windfall payment.”
Source: What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics
“Survivors are often good at both resolving and generating crisis. While this capacity to handle crisis can make you a good emergency room worker or ambulance driver, it can also be a way for you to keep yourself from feeling. If you are addicted to intensity and drama...you may be running from yourself.”
Source: The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
“Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.”
“Survivors can't always choose their methods.”
Source: Dragon Blood
“Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all feelings. Grief isolates, and every ritual, every gesture, every embrace, is a hopeless effort to break through that isolation. None of it works. The forms crumble and dissolve. To face death is to stand alone.”
“Survivors don't allow the word QUIT in their dictionary because they know the art of staying positive in any kind of negative situation."
"BE A SURVIVOR”
Source: The Better Side - 16 Positive Attributes To Lead A Better Life
“Survivors have a difficult time expressing their feelings. They are more accustomed to minimizing their pain and hiding how they really feel, both from themselves and others. They often become frightened whenever they feel anything intensely, be it anger, pain, fear, or even love and joy. They fear their emotions will consume them or make them crazy.”
Source: The Right to Innocence: Healing the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse
“Survivors lived with their mistakes.”
Source: Genuine Lies
“Survivors may become overly flooded with a disposition of responsibility, guilt, anger, shame, fear, and grief.”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“Survivors of abuse are naturally aware that the past possesses the solutions for shaping up and going forward.”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“Survivors of the Florida hurricane Ian disaster started patrolling their properties with guns because of local theft.”
“Survivors often feel their emotions are attacking them. Surprised when they arrive out of no where. Overwhelmed by their force. Scared they will change our lives. Our healing journey helps us realize ALL our emotions are allies when we let them guide us to life-changing choices.”
Source: Spirit Unbroken: Abby's Story
“Survivors told me that sleep was a great escape from the nightmare that was Jonestown. I also longed for bedtime each night at Escuela Caribe; sleep allowed me to forget where I was for a few hours.”
“Survivors who choose to heal are extraordinary people.”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“Sus abrazos me parecían un refugio lleno de calor, éramos una protección mutua: dos partes de una misma alma, (...).”
Source: Deidad
“Sus alumnos se someten de buena gana a la influencia de cualquier escritor contemporáneo, incluso de los mediocres, pero se muestran totalmente indiferentes a autores clásicos como Shakespeare, Marco Aurelio, Epicteto o Pascal, y esa incapacidad para distinguir lo grande de lo pequeño manifiesta ante todo su desconocimiento ante la vida.”
Source: Una historia aburrida
“Sus alumnos tenían la facultad de vaciarlo de criterio. De hacerle perder el entusiasmo por absolutamente todo. Y de convertir su mundo en un abismo.”
Source: Tiempo muerto
“Sus besos apasionados y sedientos limitaban mi respiración y el toque fuerte de sus manos sobre mi cuerpo, me estaban haciendo perder los sentidos, (...) todo lo que miraba y tocaba de él era sólo mío y me saboreaba con placer, al ver y sentir tan exquisita tentación que era sólo para mí.”
Source: Nieblas del Pasado
“Sus besos recorrían mi cuello y su boca buscó mis pechos, nuestra piel ardía de placer como el primer momento y yo, no deseaba que terminara, él era intensa y solamente mío y yo, era suya a su antojo y en el momento que lo quisiera.
—¿A la cama? —preguntó jadeando.
—A la cama —le contesté ansiosa.
Me sujetó con fuerza para no perder nuestra posición y mientras nuestros labios no deseaban separarse, caímos a la cama en donde la fuerza de nuestro encuentro se hizo más intensa.”
Source: Nieblas del Pasado
“Sus cacerolas colgaban en los sitios correctos. Su lámpara anímica estaba donde le correspondía. La taza de cerámica rajada reposaba tranquila. Todo estaba como debía estar.”
Source: La música del silencio / The Slow Regard of Silent Things (Crónica del asesino de reyes)
“Sus cuerdas vocales se rasgaron en un grito de desolación. Un grito que desgarraría su voz cada día, porque la luz del amanecer no auxiliaba a las almas que habían sido enviadas a la eternidad.”
Source: Sobredosis