Quotes About Resilience

It is not altogether an easy matter to undress and get ready for the night when you have no chair, no bed, no table, no water, only a little straw, and are thrown in with numbers of other people in a dark room.

Why should the Nazis do anything to me? Just because I have a little lingerie shop in Nice and my name is Gustav Kohn? What interest can Hitler possibly have in me? Don't you think I ought to stay?

A man of fifty-six, who has been all his life accustomed to his own room and a clean bed, does not find it very easy to sleep on the floor on a pile of dirty straw. He simply cannot master the technique of the thing.

The city of Nîmes itself was short of everything; it was swamped with refugees from Holland, Belgium, and northern France. It had tripled in population.

Physical courage is a fairly common trait in human beings. The other war and this one even more so have shown that there is a far greater quantum of physical courage in the world than has usually been supposed.

Though physical courage is a common phenomenon in our day and age, moral courage is a thing that is correspondingly rare.

Our wives, German women or French women as they may have been, stood loyally by us and wisely, cool-headedly, did what they could to help us all.

I thought of my Levantine later on when the Vichy government proclaimed laws against Jews that were modelled on those of Nürnberg.

In the camp at Les Mille I observed again in myself and in others how very quickly the human being becomes acclimated.

while we professors, lawyers, physicians, agronomists, artisans, instead of busying ourselves with books, legal papers, diagnoses, weather forecasts, machine parts, were making piles of bricks that we would be ordered to unpile the day following, that verse from Exodus came into my mind, the verse in which the children of Israel are forced to bake bricks for Pharaoh of Egypt to build the treasure cities of Pithom and Raamses.

And however often circumstances over which I had no control compelled me to forsake abodes that I had furnished with so much solicitude, I never learned my lesson.

I always thought it was a question of achieving some permanent state of tranquillity ... but it's not. It's more like learning to surf. The waves keep rolling in, each different from the last, and you have to ride them, instead of getting pounded to bits.

no pain was permanent, and no loss was real. That even though people treated each other abominably, even though they left, even though you let them go, even though you never laid eyes on them again, this fugue that linked you continued, whether you liked it or not.

Life is filled with terrifying moments, and we cannot stop the onslaught of fear any more than we can hold back the wind. But we can always choose our response. The very winds that cause the eagle to soar later in life terrified it when it was an eaglet. Allow fear to drive you toward God.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. —MARGARET THATCHER At

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We do not live by the violence of a sword, but the time has come to live by the power of one.

Está lista para permanecer quieta y observar? Confiar en Dios en medio de insultos, amenazas e indirectas es un proceso constante, continuo, y en algunos casos diario. Mi querida hermana, usted puede lograrlo. Él ya abrió el camino delante de nosotras.

First and foremost, we are not to be afraid. We are to banish every aspect of fear from our minds and not allow it to muddy our thinking.

What would fighting like a girl look like if it was done right?

For truly a dark and murderous enemy has already realized who you are. He knows your potential and is systematically trying to undermine your future. I believe that the attacks on your life have much more to do with who you might be in the future than who you have been in the past.

In a world gone harsh, you must have the courage to be tender as a blossom and tough as a diamond.

It takes the heart of a warrior to pursue a lion with a lamb in its mouth.

The very winds that cause the eagle to soar later in life terrified it when it was an eaglet.