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Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself (Vives Quotes)
He regards boredom, I observe, as the one and mighty enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure - if he survives the experience (Vives Quotes)
Scenes must be beautiful which daily view'd please daily, and whose novelty survives long knowledge and the scrutiny of years (Vives Quotes)
The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives (Vives Quotes)
Any great work of art... Revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air (Vives Quotes)
Shall man alone, for whom all else revives, no resurrection know? Shall man alone, imperial man! Be sown in barren ground, less privileged than grain, on which he feeds? (Vives Quotes)
They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge (Vives Quotes)
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? (Vives Quotes)
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle aged (Vives Quotes)
And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God. They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it (Vives Quotes)
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change (Vives Quotes)
Even when one has climbed up into those levels of bliss where pain vanishes, it still survives disguised as intolerable ecstasy (Vives Quotes)
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt (Vives Quotes)
To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything (Vives Quotes)
An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a poet... this is the one real, vital principle that survives through all places and all times (Vives Quotes)
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men (Vives Quotes)
From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians. But unless the humanist tradition itself in some form survives, there can really be no civilization at all (Vives Quotes)
Language is a living thing. It must survive in men’s minds and on their tongues if it survives at all (Vives Quotes)
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture (Vives Quotes)
When you can’t bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn’t you anymore; you’ve changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all (Vives Quotes)
Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo (Vives Quotes)
Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds of years on the ocean floor. Worms destroy the wood. Iron corrodes. Silver turns black but gold doesn’t change in sea water. It loses none of its brilliance or colour. It comes up the same. It survives shipwrecks and time (Vives Quotes)
Love doesn’t go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives (Vives Quotes)
The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in the world around us. It has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself (Vives Quotes)
It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does (Vives Quotes)
Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct (Vives Quotes)
There exists a mountain of circumstantial evidence that consciousness survives bodily death. This is the kind of evidence that would stand up in a court of law. Some people believe that science needs better tools to quantify what consciousness is. Perhaps when we discover what consciousness is we will be on the road to providing absolute scientific evidence that there is life after death (Vives Quotes)
A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good (Vives Quotes)
Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn’t matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife (Vives Quotes)
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees (Vives Quotes)