Quotes About Resilience

É uma estupidez não ter esperança.

I'll love you in the rain and in the snow and in the hail and - what else is there?

I've had plenty to worry about one time or other. I'm through worrying.

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.

But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated. THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA

His father had dealt so lightly with evil, giving it no chance ever and denying its importance so that it had no status and no shape nor dignity. He treated evil like an old entrusted friend, David thought, and evil, when she poxed him, never knew she'd scored. His father was not vulnerable he knew and, unlike most people he had known, only death could kill him.

We are all broken – that's how the light gets in.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

A kidder gets to be an awful thing around a camp if his stuff goes sort of sour.

Quando le cose vanno bene e sei tu a sentirti giù di corda, un bicchiere può parti sentir meglio. Ma quando sono le cose ad andar male e tu bene, un bicchiere non può far altro che chiarirti ulteriormente il concetto.

El mundo nos rompe a todos, mas después, algunos se vuelven fuertes en los lugares rotos

Everyone is broken by life, but some people are stronger in the broken places.

We are all broken, that's how the light gets in

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.

mér fanst þær fyrirgefa okkur þó við værum ásfángin og gift - það mundi altsaman lagast með tímanum

When the fish had been hit it was as though he himself were hit. But I killed the shark that hit my fish, he thought.

And what beat you, he thought. Nothing, he said aloud. I went out too far.

No matter what you do, no matter how hard you work, how much you love, they catch you off guard one day and break you.

We've only been living in these ghettos for seventy-five years or so, but the other three hundred years -- I think this is worth writing about. I think we've made tremendous sacrifices, we've shown tremendous strength. In the ghetto you see a lot of frustration; you see very little strength.

Ain't we all been hurt by slavery?

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

They had chopped wood here too; then they were gone. Gone to the fields, the small towns, the cities – where they died. There was always news coming back to the quarter about someone who had been killed or who had been sent to prison for killing someone else: Snowball, stabbed to death in a nightclub in Port Allen; Claudee, killed by a woman in New Orleans; Smitty, sent to the state penitentiary for manslaughter. And there were others who did not go anywhere but simply died slower

I'm Not All-Right, and You're Not All-Right, But That's Okay—THAT'S All-Right

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.