Quotes About Resilience

Their crowing and the vapors of the hot sauce helped clear enough room in my head to think about out what I had to do. Planning my day was a way of not giving into despair. It really is not possible to pay attention fully to two things at once. For instance: carpentry and suicide.

Anyway, I do not want you thinking that I or Addie or Joe or Skeezie feel sorry for ourselves. We do not. Other people may call us names or think we're weird or whatever, but that does not mean we believe them. We may be misfits, but we're okay. Leastwise, in our own eyes we are, and that's all that matters.

The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.

Maestre Yoda, îmi pare r?u. - Åžtiu, dar s? îl înfrunÅ£i pe Vader din nou trebuie, iar scuza nu te ajut?.

I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniel's.

He swung so hard, you could've turned him upside down and shaken every piece of change out of his pocket, and he would have never missed a beat.

Wise leaders seek to understand how the brain reacts to stress and practise simple, almost meditative techniques to stay calm, clear and connected. They use maps, mantras and anchors to navigate their way through highly pressurized situations, both personal and professional, and to bring themselves back to the moment. In this way they and their teams stay on top of their game and on top of the situation.

No son las especies más fuertes ni las más inteligentes las que sobreviven, sino las que saben dar una respuesta mejor al cambio. CHARLES DARWIN

As Nietzsche said: 'He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

The training, decision-making wise, should be harder than the game,' says Wayne Smith. 'So you try an overlying principle of throwing problems at them – unexpected events – forcing them to solve the problems.

Porque la fuerza de la manada es el lobo, y la fuerza del lobo es la manada.

If you think of physical conditioning, technical understanding and tactical appreciation as forming three legs,' Wayne Smith tells writer Gregor Paul, 'the stool isn't balanced unless you have psychological strength as well.

for it is better that we slay a coward than through a coward be all slain.

wolves'),111 keeping him alive for many months longer than he could ever have survived without the solidarity of such utterly dissimilar individuals.

Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.

Being Mistreated is the most important condition of mortality, for eternity itself depends on how we view those who mistreat us.

may have conquered Santa Anna," Nancy Lea was fond of telling him, "but you will never conquer me.

Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks.

it's well known that captivity makes queers of us all—

persistence is likely linked to high dopamine, so the higher the dopamine levels, the more you are likely to soldier on through adversity to achieve a particular goal.

I'm over the hill for come-on lines. On a quiet day, I can hear my liver rotting. For exercise, I fall down.