Quotes About Resilience

We were all the same. Kids from nowhere going nowhere. He always saw a light through the darkness. Knew the cracks let that light in, and that those cracks could suck you up.

the ballerina on perfected toe Spins to the axis of a fortitude That is the sum of all her yesterdays.

Every man has a house-broken heart except the great man.

In her face was the tense expression of an organism surviving in an alien element.

There was some derangement in her equilibrium that kept her immune from her own decent

She was broad and tall, and though her skin was the skin of a child, there could be seen coming, early in her life, the design that was to be the weather-beaten grain of her face, that wood in the work; the tree coming forward in her, an undocumented record of time.

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.

A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

Probably many people think that I came back to life after the Fifth Symphony. No. I came back to life after the Seventh.

I'm training my left hand to write, in case I lose the ability in my right. That's gymnastics for the dying.

The truth is that the war helped. The war brought great sorrow and made life very very hard. Much sorrow, many tears. But it had been even harder before the war, because then everyone was alone in his sorrow.

Zar nas tek velika nesre?a zaista vra?a sebi? (...) Ima ne?ega istinski velikog, za um i dušu velikog, u svakoj pravoj nesre?i. Samo u njoj postoji jedna životna istina koje se više ne bi lišio. Nikad.

Zbog mene ne treba i ne smeš ništa da menjaš u svom životu. To je tvoj jedini život. I nosi ga, sestro, do kraja. Ako sada pokušaš da se iš?upaš iz njega, bi?eš još nesre?nija.

Mrzim sve što je odricanje! - Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odri?em. Ja ho?u ceo, sav, prepunjen život, da menjam ovaj svet.

I naružila se zemlja od pogašenih ognjišta. Dve zore nikad na istom bivaku. Kad menjaš ognjište, i narav ti se menja. Kad tebi otimaju, i ti otimaš. Veruj mi, u zlu su svi ljudi zli.

Ljubav se dokazuje praštanjem i ?ekanjem.

Sve nam se smrklo da ne svane nikad, jer i nema za šta kad nam je sudbina pse?a i do rata i u ratu.

If you don't manage your emotions, then your emotions will manage you.

We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.

The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don't always spoil the good things and make them unimportant.

Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don't hesitate to be a lighthouse.