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throve

«So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.»
«Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.»
«Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive»
«You can drop humans anywhere and they'll thrive-only the rat does as well.»
«Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust»
Author: Kenneth Rexroth | About: Mankind | Keywords: disgust, disgusts, ecstasy, pigs, thriven, throve
«A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.»
«There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach -- it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.»
«It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.»
«I never saw an oft-transplanted tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That throve so well as those that settled be»
«No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.»