Quotes About Resilience

People abhor boxing, and I agree, but I admire men and women who can stand in a ring like that, nowhere to hide. I've only been to a couple of boxing matches, and they're different from any other event. I'm not there to see blood; I'm there for the heart of someone being able to get up and keep going. And for the respect that's often there in the end.

Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.

Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly.

Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.

Something indefinite is always worse than something definite, a strong fear that doesn't last very long is easier than one that's nebulous but doesn't go away.

Broken but not broken.

And the enticement to seek a rose without thorns is never far away and always difficult to resist.

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

uno no es más duro e inescrupuloso que todos los demás, lo destruirán, con o sin remordimientos. Hemos regresado a la sombría verdad del mundo darwiniano: los que sobreviven son invariablemente los más aptos. O, más bien, la supervivencia es la prueba última de que uno está en buena forma.

Wie bei den Leichen, die man in den Krematorien von Auschwitz und Treblinka verbrannt hat, benötigt man auch hierfür keinen zusätzlichen Brennstoff; ständig schwelende Wut entzündet sich immer wieder neu an sich selbst.

Don Quijote no fue conquistador, fue conquistado. Pero en su derrota, tal como nos enseñó Cervantes, demostró que .

Un Estado es "social" cuando promueve el principio, comunitariamente respaldado, de prevención colectiva como protección contra los infortunios individuales y sus consecuencias.

Don Quijote no fue conquistador, fue conquistado. Pero en su derrota, tal como nos enseñó Cervantes, demostró que 'la única cosa que nos queda frente a esa ineludible derrote que se llama vida es intentar comprenderla'.

Don Quijote no fue conquistador, fue conquistado. Pero en su derrota, tal como nos enseñó Cervantes, demostró que 'la única cosa que nos queda frente a esa ineludible derrota que se llama vida es intentar comprenderla'.

Because life is complicated and difficult. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't truly lived.

Quiet fell upon the pickup and lasted for a little over nineteen minutes. Is that why you hang around with him?, Loretta asked. Cuz he saved your life? Sort'a. I know Earl isn't always easy to get along with. Fact is, he can be a real pain the ass more often than not, but after you spend enough time with him, and you learn to ignore his personality, he's a pretty decent guy. If you say so.

It's snowing still, said Eeyore gloomily. So it is. And freezing. Is it? Yes, said Eeyore. However, he said, brightening up a little, we haven't had an earthquake lately.

Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change.

Memories should console, not enslave.

When we blend courage and compassion, assertiveness and gentleness, our essential strength and kindness support us in being where we are.

The oppressed grows weightless: doze/n th/rough c/and/or man/aged leg/ions stud/ents

Bees die with the burnt honey at their mouths, at least.

Girl, interrupted.

To go elsewhere would mean starting all over. Learning as a child does. I have been a child already. I will not yield one bit, one speck of the power and influence I have now.