Quotes About Resilience

Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Karen Hansen Clement sank deep in melancholy. She heard till she could hear no more. She saw until she could see no more. She was exhausted and confused, and the will to go on was being drained from her blood. Then, as so often happens when one reaches the end of the line, there was a turning upward and she emerged into the light. It

And one day a great thing happened. Dov Landau smiled again.

Habían arrancado el alambre de espino, las cámaras y los hornos crematorios habían desaparecido, pero los recuerdos no le abandonarían nunca.

Wladislaw Dering

sobre la estela de este arrebato, la generación joven y curtida de los sabras dio lugar a otra generación que no había de saber jamás lo que era verse humillado por haber nacido judío.

Mira desde los cielos y ve cómo nos hemos convertido en el desprecio y la burla de las naciones; somos contados como ganado y llevados al matadero para ser degollados y destruidos o para ser golpeados y acusados. Sin embargo, a pesar de todo esto, no hemos olvidado Tu nombre; te lo imploramos: no nos olvides…»

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Bloemfontein

Todo lo que poseemos se reduce a nuestro coraje y a nuestra fe. Hemos vivido dos mil años recibiendo golpes y afrentas. ¡Esta lucha hemos de ganarla nosotros!

Su profesión le había enseñado a esconder el miedo, a mostrarse impasible ante las tragedias. El lado negro del mundo, sus penalidades y su miseria formaban parte del trabajo cotidiano.

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you're tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty .

In My Secret Life I saw you this morning, you were moving so fast. Can't seem to loosen my grip On the past. And I miss you so much, there's no one in sight. And we're still making love In my secret life. I smile when I am angry, I cheat and I lie, I do what I have to do to get by, In my secret life.

It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender

a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.

That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set—the set of people who don't give up.

Michael Jordan once said, "I've missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I've lost almost three hundred games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

My father had drawn number 3,004 in a death lottery in which German precision trumped Nazi brutality.

along with our responses to them, determine

recent years psychologists have found that the ability to persist in the face of obstacles is at least as important a factor in success as talent.