Quotes About Resilience

most people do pretty well when things go pretty bad.

My parents believe in the principle of 'sink or swim,' or 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger ? or it kills you." From "The Education of Robert Nifkin

Something in her had been broken... The ones who were killed were not the only ones who'd been lost.

Os [povos] que aqui estavam eram falantes do tupi, língua que depois foi aprendida pelos colonizadores e missionários e se tornou oficial até o século XVIII, quando foi proibida pelo Marquês de Pombal.

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success.

Afghanistan. Jarrah

General George Patton wrote from long experience: "There are more tired division commanders than there are tired divisions. Tired officers are always pessimists." The lieutenant was tired. His sergeants were not. They wanted to continue the mission.

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

Y, por encima de todo, leemos contra la muerte

En otras palabras, no pierda la cabeza, nada ocurre como está previsto, es lo único que nos enseña el futuro al convertirse en pasado.

By the end of the third day, I hated it. I hated it with all my heart. Nothing was going to change. The only thing I was learning was that boredom can hurt like physical pain, like wearing an iron hat, like sandpaper clothes, like being crushed under a big stone.

Next time you're overwhelmed, just remind yourself that this isn't completely foreign. This isn't square one. Things are different, but they're still a little the same.

Whatever's going on with us, it's not a disease. It's not a beast. It's just a new muscle. You're never going to control it if you're too afraid to flex it.

I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, fuck that, I'm Harry Potter.

After five years of military occupation, the French population of Illinois was exhausted and bewildered.

He felt as though the bones of his ribcage were snapping beneath the weight of the stone that God had laid over his heart.

Within a month, five hundred Jews had chosen to kill themselves rather than face another day of torment, including a family of four who lived next door to the Kleins. "They shot themselves, one at a time," Klein said. "I lay in my bed and listened to the whole thing. A shot, followed by sobs. Another shot, more sobs. After the fourth shot, there was no one left to cry, no one but me.

Shamron had always believed careers were defined less by the successes achieved than the calamities survived. "Any fool can take a victory lap," he once famously remarked during a lecture at the Academy, "but only a truly great officer can maintain his composure and his cover when his heart is breaking.

Do with him what you will. I'm not going to cry over a little spilled blood. Just make certain none of it splashes on me.

To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune

I find it comforting to prepare myself for a calamity and to be pleasantly surprised if it turns out to be a garden-variety disaster instead.

Miss Herzfeld kept walking. And she never looked back. Not once. And she never saw her family again. Within three weeks, they were dead. But not Miss Herzfeld. She was alive because she had blonde hair. And her sister had been turned to ashes because hers was dark.

In a world gone mad, America is still the last best hope.