Quotes About Resilience

The entire human condition can be summed up like that: it could be worse.

Dès que j'ai atteint mon indépendance, un logement habité par moi a d'emblée ressemblé à un débarras squatté par des réfugiés politiques, prêts à déguerpir à la moindre descente de police.

Cualquiera que viva un infierno durable o pajero puede, para enfrentarse a él, recurrir a la técnica mental más gratificantes de cuantas existen: contarse un cuento.

Elle se transforma en une créature désenchantée dont l'obsession fut de ne pas sombrer dans le gouffre que cette situation avait creusé en elle.

La souffrance de la revoir fut si vive qu'elle mesura dans son âme l'ampleur des dégâts.

Très peu d'êtres humains sont réellement capables de suicide. Je suis comme la majorité, j'ai l'instinct de survie. Vous aussi.

Aquellos que, de un modo u otro, han conocido la muerte desde demasiado cerca y han regresado tienen dentro de sí su propia Eurídice: saben que en su interior existe algo que se acuerda perfectamente de la muerte y que más vale no mirarla de frente. Y es que la muerte, como una madriguera, como una habitación de persianas bajadas, como la soledad, es a la vez terrible y tentadora: uno siente que podría sentirse bien con ella.

Huida poco gloriosa? Siempre es mejor que dejarse atrapar. El único deshonor es no ser libre.

Sissie knew that she had to stop herself from crying. Why weep for them? In fact, stronger in her was the desire to ask somebody why the entire world has had to pay so much and is still paying so much for some folks' unhappiness.

En cualquier accidente que te acaezca, no digas nunca: "He perdido tal o cual objeto"; di más bien: "Lo he devuelto". ¿Acaba de morir tu hijo?: "Fue devuelto". ¿Ha muerto tu mujer?: "Fue devuelta".

So what. I'd make up whatever I lacked in other ways. Quickly. Fast, fast. Gimme my cake. It was time to fuck.

We'd run out of coke but not out of time.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look after our people.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.

Experiencing criticism definitely makes you a little weaker at times, but in the end, it's made me a lot stronger. It's made me have conviction about something that I can stand for. It's made me want to fight for something.

Most voices get weaker and frailer. I seem to be getting better with age.

What doesn't kill you, if you use it to make yourself stronger, then you will get stronger. But if you let it beat you down, then you will be weaker.

It was a hallmark of Nelson Mandela's leadership that being open to change made him appear not weaker, but even stronger.

Anger has been a really big deal for women: how can we express it without feeling that, as the physically weaker sex, we won't get killed. The alpha-woman was burned at the stake and had her head chopped off in days of old.

The weaker the country, the stronger the smile.

I don't want to come across as a victim with a sob story. I've got a fantastic life. I'm not a victim. I thank the bullies out there for making me who I am. Some people become weaker, but the bullies made me stronger.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn't mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.