Quotes About Resilience

Ain't you been listening? I'm YUSUKE URAMESHI... the same ornery dawg you've always known and loved. So I have a DEMON ANCESTOR! Big Deal! I'm still going To KICK Sensui's sorry butt! -Yusuke

To Kiyomori each stall, each soul here seemed borne under by the crushing weight of the world; everyone here was a pitiful weed, trodden underfoot -- a conglomeration of human lives putting down roots in this slime, living and letting live in the struggle to survive; and he was stirred by the fearful and magnificent courage communicated by the scene.

The world is a stone wall ... and they have put the stones so close together that there is not a single crack through which one may enter.

Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit.

If you get stuck to the committed path then... this wall has to be.. KNOCKED DOWN!!

The thread of human hope is spun with the flax of sorrow.

The idea is to carry everything on your back, forget your troubles, and let tomorrow take care of itself.

in Israel no trauma was ever really forgotten, only displaced by new trauma so that the country's emotional life resembled one of its archaeological sites, an accumulation of disrupted layers.

I'm sure things will get better. So...it's okay to stop fighting.

I have no objection to any man coming here, but I will have nothing to do with men who will abuse me at midnight and at noon day. Our difficulties and persecutions have always arisen from men right in our midst.

If any of you wish to know how to have your bread fall butter side up, butter it on both sides, and then it will fall butter side up.

Since I embraced the Gospel, with many of my brethren, I have been broken up and compelled to leave my home five times, yet we live as a people, and are as comfortable and as well off as our neighbors who do not belong to the Church; and I do not know that our enemies hate us any more than they hate each other.

Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.

The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

The truth is, you will never re-create third and 10, down by four, at Texas Stadium, in the fourth quarter, don't try.

We had two field goals and a touchdown and they had five field goals. So ... for us, to lose to a team kicking five field goals was like --? that was an extra slap in the face. It was like, it was the Giants, No. 1. No. 2, it was our three-peat. No. 3, we fumbled with it kind of in our hands. And we got beat by five field goals. It was rough to say the least.

Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly ... and if left unresolved for very long, you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place.

It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

Still, my heroes were loner rebel characters like Han Solo, a leader of the Rebel Alliance in the Star Wars trilogy, and Wolverine of the X-Men. Wolverine is hotheaded, doesn't always listen to Cyclops or Professor X, and always seems pissed off and ready to fight because he was either misunderstood or treated wrongly. I looked up to those rebels, who were much more fascinating than the do-gooder, wholesome characters like Superman.

Most courage comes from being too tired and hungry to be afraid anymore.

She is like a broken pot that's not afraid of shattering, and I'm like a dead pig who no longer minds that the water's coming to a boil

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