Quotes About Resilience

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the man you watched die yesterday doesn't exist today; he fell to yesterday's bullets and you've got today's bullets to deal with. Nevertheless, sometimes it got me to brooding.

I could see through it, but that didn't make the more difficult thing any less difficult. What did help, in this particular moment, was the sharp nip of pain on my fingertips. The match was still burning.

Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

I tried to tell her how if you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other, and if you could accept the past you might hope for the future, for only out of the past can you make a future.

There was only the sound of the July-flies, which seems to be inside your head like it is the grind and whirr of the springs and cogs which are you and which will not stop no matter what you say until they are good and ready.

You can't make bricks without straw, and most of the time all the straw you got is secondhand straw from the cowpen.

There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity […] The human frame just ain't built that way.

Maybe mountaineering shouldn't be considered heroic at all, since the whole effort is 'useless' and in no way to be compared with sitting down at the wrong lunch counter in the early-sixties South, or going into battle. Nevertheless, situations arise in the useless enterprise of mountaineering that present people with choices, that make emotional and physical demands that few can meet.

We can choose to feel angry, hurt, and burdened, or we can recognize that the experience, though painful, is a magnificent opportunity for enhanced self-understanding.

El verdadero sanador, el verdadero sabio, es el que permanece sabio entre aquellos que todavía no han despertado. Ten valor, y permanece en pie.

The best way to treat your fears is to kiss them on the nose, and they disappear.

The shaming words were solid, immovable events in my life. What do you do with the solid and immovable? You build on it.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

The man who can fight to heaven's own height is the man who can fight when he's losing.

Today you had a very important lesson on taking punches. A lot of people will tell you that the first thing you have to learn is how to take a punch. But I believe the first thing you should know is that you can take one and survive. A punch won't kill you. Conquering your fear is the first step to becoming a powerful fighter.

The Nazis had broken our windows and torn apart our furniture, but they had not destroyed our selves.

Joey, no situation is entirely unworkable. People have gone through worse bad-rapping than that, and come up smelling like roses. The Shaggy Average American Man Story

C'est insensé Vous avez tout perdu. - Je ne suis pas de votre avis. Permettez-moi de vous faire remarquer que je suis toujours en vie - Je vous l'accorde. Pour le moment.

Adrina, it is time you mended your own soul. Cry, cry until there are no more tears in you.

You're only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You've done something. Keep going. Don't quit.

Life is sometimes tough when you do not fit the standard profile.

We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don't be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You can't have success without failure.