Quotes About Resilience

It is sheer hell in this house. I would have to be quite a writer to describe it properly. Anyhow, I sprang from the chaos and it is my business to pull myself out of it.

What matters is not to allow my whole life to be dominated by what is going on inside me. That has to be kept subordinate one way or another. What I mean is: one must not let oneself be completely disabled by just one thing, however bad; don't let it impede the great stream of life that flows through you. I have the feeling of something secret deep inside me that no one knows about.

When you have an interior life, it certainly doesn't matter what side of the prison fence you're on. . . I've already died a thousand times in a thousand concentration camps. I know everything. There is no new information to trouble me. One way or another, I already know everything. And yet, I find this life beautiful and rich in meaning. At every moment.

Pessimistische Depressionen sind als schöpferische Pausen zu betrachten, in denen sich die Kräfte wieder herstellen. Wenn man sich hiervon bewusst is, so werden die Depressionen schneller vorübergehen. Man sol sich niet deprimiert fühlen über eine Depression.

You know, sir, this operation is not, in any hands, a hundred percent predictable? Well, I'm an optimist. I didn't know there were any more such animals, said Dr. Courtland. Never think you've seen the last of anything

At the sting in her eyes, she remembered for him that there must be no tears in his.

For he was not strong enough to receive the impact of unfamiliar things without a little talk to break their fall.

Her father left his questions unasked. But both knew, and for the same reason, that bad days go better without any questions at all.

by the essence of their nature, which was frail, all human beings were probably doomed to be seasick.

Mas a culpa por sobrevivermos àqueles que amamos, é justo que a carreguemos, pensava ela. Sobreviver-lhes é uma desconsideração que lhes fazemos.

A memória pode ser ferida, uma e outra vez, mas aí talvez resida a sua clemência final. Enquanto for vulnerável ao momento da vida, vive para nós, e enquanto vive, e enquanto formos capazes, podemos dar-lhe o que lhe e devido.

She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly blind, in her bed, an old lady. Reciting, her voice took on resonance and firmness, it rang with the old fervor, with ferocity even. She was teaching me one more, almost her last, lesson: emotions do not grow old. I knew that I would feel as she did, and I do.

But here I am, and here I'll stay. I want the world to know I'm happy.

To you, ladies and gentlemen, and dear comrades, who are all that is left from humanity, but with such leftovers one can still make a very good soup.

Nefericire cel ce vrea s?-ÅŸi p?streze originalitatea! Ei bine, asta e. Am sa ma apar impotriva tuturor! PuÅŸca, unde mi-e puÅŸca? (Se întoarce cu faÅ£a c?tre capetele de rinoceri din fundal ÅŸi strig?) Am s? m? ap?r împotriva lumii întregi, m? voi ap?ra! Sunt ultimul om ÅŸi voi r?mîne aÅŸa pîn? la cea din urm? suflare! Nu m? dau b?tut!

People don't change, their situations change. My circumstances can improve or grow worse but it's always myself in the midst of them, unchanged in my private essence.

Obositul ins Cineva rupea din el cîte puÈ›intel. L-a l?sat decolorat È™i cutremurat, Mirat s-a pip?it dar nu s-a reg?sit. Din el o forÈ›a rea creÈ™tea È™i-l cuprindea. Obositul ins se l?s? cuprins.

The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfillment, but brace yourself for failure.

You had to suffer shipwreck through your own efforts before you were ready to seize the lifebelt he threw you. Believe me, I know from my own experience that the Master knows you and each of his pupils much better than we know ourselves. He reads in the souls of his pupils more than they care to admit.

You had to suffer shipwreck through your own efforts before you were ready to seize the lifebelt he threw you.

Bad ages to live through are good ages to learn from.

LAVINIA: I love everything that grows simply-- up toward the sun-- everything that's straight and strong! I hate what's warped and twists and eats into itself and dies for a lifetime in shadow...

Provare dolore è naturale. Superarlo è una questione di scelta.

Parecía especialmente cruel, por tanto, el que tres días después, en el hospital, el médico entrará en su cuarto y le dijera que padecía algo de lo que jamás podría curarse, y que lo único que podía hacer era controlarlo, como si el control, para un chico de dieciocho años que quiere vivir a tumba abierta, no fuera la negación misma de la vida.