Quotes About Resilience

In spite of his misery he absolutely refused to take the half gramme raspberry sundae which she pressed upon him, I'd rather be myself he said. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

Librarse de todo lo desagradable en lugar de aprender a soportarlo. Si es más noble soportar en el alma las pedradas o las flechas de la mala fortuna, o bien alzarse en armas contra un piélago de pesares y acabar con ellos enfrentándose a los mismos... Pero ustedes no hacen ni una cosa ni otra. Ni soportan ni resisten. Se limitan a abolir las pedradas y las flechas. Es demasiado fácil.

Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them … But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.

the social body persists although the component cells may change.

Such is life, such the mysterious dispensations of providence. All of us have our little crosses, and every man, as the apostle so justly remarked, shall bear his own burden.

It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them

I'm feeling miserable . . . There was no self-pity in his tone, no appeal for sympathy ? only the angry matter-of-factness of a Stoic who has finally grown sick of the long farce of impassibility and is resentfully blurting out the truth.

Revolcarse en el fango no es la mejor manera de limpiarse

The work of a hundred years destroyed in a single night. And yet the fact remained - the fact of the ending of sorrow as well as the fact of sorrow.

Uno debe poder sentirse herido y trastornado; de lo contrario, no puede pensar frases realmente buenas, penetrantes como los rayos X.

Often in the past he had wondered what it would be like to be subjected (soma-less and with nothing but his own inward resources to rely on) to some great trial, some pain, some persecution; he had even longed for affliction.

Of that imagined stoicism, that theoretical courage, not a trace was left.

Ne sebeple olursa olsun hatan?z?n üzerinde kara kara düÅŸünmeyin. Temizlenmenin yolu çamurda yuvarlanmak deÄŸildir.

I neither suffer myself, nor other fools, gladly.

We all confront the parameters of our cage eventually. What we do when we reach those bars helps define us.

Picture yourself on a surfboard. Once you find your balance, loosen your grip. Breathe. Accept that no matter how good you think you are, you will fall. Again and again. - We take pictures not only to see, but to be seen; not only to remember, but to be remembered. But when you are surfing, it's best to forget about the people on the beach.

To the athlete, all things are forgiven

The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.

My friend tells me that memory fails me in part because nature mercifully wishes to hide from us things which are painful. The spider-web of protective forgetfulness is woven over the mouth of the cave which conceals the raw head and bloody bones of our misfortunes. But the greatest men, says King Lamus, are those that refuse to be treated like squalling children, who insist on facing reality in every form, and tear off ruthlessly the bandages from their own wounds.

Ahora ya sé que mi soledad va a ser más difícil, y mis geranios más pobres y mi frío más frío. Pero son mi única verdad, y no quiero volver a soñar nunca por no tener que despertar otra vez.

Es necesario ser desgraciado para explotar ciertos manantiales misteriosos, ocultos en la inteligencia humana.

Apoderarse de un corazón que no está acostumbrado a los ataques es entrar en una ciudad abierta y sin guarnición.

Hubiérase dicho que un dolor supremo lo hacía superior a los temores ordinarios.

Es preciso haber querido morir, Maximiliano, para saber cuán bueno es vivir