Quotes About Resilience

Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will be a wiser one. And dawn will follow the darkness sooner or later. Rebirth can never come without death.

But make no mistake: the weeds will win; nature bats last.

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.

Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life.

when they're bathed in blood everyday you can't expect them to rise from it stainless the next morning.

Robert Masello

your business.

GIs were good for a Hershey's bar.

Robert Masello

If you had never seen war up close, it was an easy thing to be brave and bellicose about it. But if you had, it was hard not to despair.

She tried to cry out, but her throat was so parched that only a croak emerged. She took a swig from her canteen, wiped the dust from her face with another splash, then shouted, "Here! It's here!

were fighting grimly, and at huge cost, to reclaim the ground lost at the beginning of the war. The fierce battle over a little town called Saint-Lô, in

THE BERING STRAIT, 1918 "Sergei, do not die," the girl said, turning around in the open boat. "I forbid you to die." She had hoped, in vain, that her voice would not falter. When she tried to reach out to him, he pulled away, still holding on to the tiller with dead-white fingers.

The sight of it made her want to weep. She was alone in the boat—alone in the world—and the tiller was already lurching wildly from one side to the other, screeching louder than the gulls swooping in and out of the fog. The hollow place in her heart, the place where she had already stored so many deaths, would now have to find room for Sergei's, too.

clambered to the top of a pile of ruins, feeling his way over broken bricks and burnt timbers and shattered glass. His

No. I've seen enough brains to last

Once you've experienced the joy of taking the first step, you can decide whether it's appropriate to take another. You'll know you're ready when your current step becomes automatic, effortless, and even pleasurable. But don't let anyone pressure you... If you ever feel yourself dreading the activity or making excuses for not performing it, it's time to cut back on the size of the step.

low-key change helps the human mind circumnavigate the fear that blocks success and creativity. Just

Low key change helps the human mind circumnavigate the fear that blocks success and creativity.

Instead of aggressively forcing yourself into a boot-camp mentality about change, give your mind permission to make the leaps on its own schedule, in its own time.

Radikální zm?na je jako výstup na strmý kopec - vítr vás m?že strhnout d?íve, než v?bec vystoupíte na vrchol, nebo pomyšlení na všechnu tu námahu zp?sobí, že se vzdáte ješt? d?íve, než jste za?ali.

Všechny zm?ny, dokonce i ty pozitivní, vedou k obavám. Pokusy dosáhnout cíle radikálními nebo revolu?ními prost?edky ?asto selhávají, protože zvyšují strach. Ale malé postupné kroky kaizen snižují odpov?? mozku na strach, stimulují racionální myšlení a kreativní hru.

Když budete postupovat malými kroky, tak nepatrnými, že vám budou p?ipadat triviální nebo dokonce sm?šné, m?žete v klidu obeplout všechny p?ekážky, které vás p?edtím dokázaly porazit.

Confront the difficult when it is still easy; Accomplish the great task by a series of small acts." -TAO TE CHING