Quotes About Resilience

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

Pero el hombre no está hecho para la derrota —dijo—. Un hombre puede ser destruido, pero no derrotado.

But none of these scars were fresh,They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.

In the old days he would not have worried, but the fighting part of him was tired now, along with the other part, and he was alone in all of this now and he lay on the big, wide, old bed and could neither read nor sleep.

It is in defeat that we become Christian.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO I thought the pain alone would kill me

the world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places

The fish is calm and steady. I will eat it all and then I will be ready.

his fight has no panic in it. I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am? He

You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother. Come on and kill me. I do not care who kills who. Now

I'm afraid of the rain because sometimes I see me dead in it.

The thousand times he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again.

Ara went down and Thomas Hudson was alone with the night and the sea and he still rode it like a horse going downhill too fast across broken country.

he who ruleth his spirit is greater than he that taketh a city

El hombre no está hecho para la derrota; un hombre puede ser destruido, pero no derrotado.

But in the dark now and no glow showing and no lights and only the wind and the steady pull of the sail he felt that perhaps he was already dead. He put his two hands together and felt the palms. They were not dead and he could bring the pain of life by simply opening and closing them. He leaned his back against the stern and knew he was not dead. His shoulders told him.

Mas o homem não foi feito para a derrota — disse em voz alta. — Um homem pode ser destruído, mas nunca derrotado

El mundo rompe a todos y después muchos, son fuertes en los lugares rotos.

I didn't know how I could feel any worse. But you can all right. I can promise you that.

THE MARVELLOUS THING IS THAT IT'S painless," he said. "That's how you know when it starts.

It is not bad," he said. "And pain does not matter to a man.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?

he said it now in a complete embracing of all that would not be

I wish I had a stone for the knife," the old man said after he had checked the lashing on the oar butt. "I should have brought a stone." You should have brought many things, he thought. But you did not bring them, old man. Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.