Quotes About Resilience

Pain is a teaching tool. Sometimes it is used to humble certain people. Sometimes a haughty spirit can be brought down and taught to be more gracious through suffering. It may teach them that they must eventually learn to rise above the pain, and then they can deal with it. Sometimes just understanding pain and why we have it, lessens the pain.

The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.

Buenos Aires puede volver a ser lo que fué, porque la civilización europea es tan {91} fuerte allí, que en despecho de las brutalidades del gobierno se ha de sostener.

Poverty appeared first in their meals, then in their shoes, and finally in their thoughts and prayers. Still,

La desdicha es grande, pero el hombre es aún más grande que la desdicha (citando Tagore)

En el éxito de taquilla Annie, la huerfanita de rulos pelirrojos tiene un optimismo inclaudicable: «El sol saldrá mañana» . A pesar de vivir en la pobreza y el abandono Annie se niega a ver su estado de orfandad como algo permanente. No ha aprendido a ser indefensa y vulnerable, y su personaje representa todo lo opuesto: la esperanza.

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

La paz les dejo, la paz mía les doy: no se la doy yo, como la da el mundo. No se turbe su corazón, ni se acobarde.

To be a Frenchman means to fight for your country and its wine," he said.

You had to deal with a situation you did not want. Once you are defeated, you have to do what you are told.

For Henri Jayer of Vosne-Romanée in Burgundy, it meant trading his wine for food so his family would have enough to eat. For Prince Philippe Poniatowski of Vouvray, it meant burying his best wines in his yard so that he would have something to restart business with after the war.

There are a lot of things that manage to get broken in a life, most of them never to be put back together again.

You need to be willing to live on the street to be an artist. Getting sucked into a career is an invitation to bail. It makes it too easy to give up. It makes it almost inevitable that you will.

oh i should worry and fretdeath and i will coquettethere s a dance in the old dame yettoujours gai toujours gai

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat

i look back on my life and it seems to me to be just one damned kitten after another

i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums but wotthehell wotthehell i wake the world from sleep as i caper and sing and leap when i sing my wild free tune wotthehell wotthehell under the blear eyed moon i am pelted with cast off shoon but wotthehell wotthehell

The big diffrence between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains.

You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good.

forget the ink, the milk, the blood - all was washed clean with the flood we rose up from the falling waters the fallen rain's own sons and daughters and none of this, none of this matters.

It was not bleeding quite so badly now, he decided—or maybe he was just running out of blood.

Yes, I said to myself, there are things I will never be able to do again. I don't like that and may even hate it, but that doesn't change the way things are. The sooner I make peace with that fact and accept the way things are, the sooner I'll be able to live in peace and enjoy my new normalcy.

Just as it was necessary to reinflate my lungs to overcome pneumonia, I needed the breath of God to help me overcome the depression of my spirit. I