Quotes About Resilience

Er de uelskedes sår nu lægt for altid? Hvordan skulle de være det, da den tidlige kærlighedsmangels traumatiske spor aldrig kan udviskes helt, og følelsen af fremmedhed desuden er menneskets grundbefindende! De uelskedes sår vil altid springe op på ny ved livets kritiske tidspunkter. Men vi kender retningen: Vi må igen slippe en afhængighed fri for at give plads for kærligheden. De uelskedes sår er det skød, vi fødes af mange gange.

Tryk forvandles ikke til trang, til livslyst eller livsglæde, men splintres voldeligt, hvis alle kræfter sættes ind. Og det er tragisk. Den slags mennesker knuses af den is, som deres hjerter ikke kan smelte. De ødelægger det, de ville være gode ved.

I think superheroes are heroes with flaws, and in their flaws, there is a sense of humor.

We're all optimists in our profession or we'd be forced to shoot ourselves. - Joshua Bloch

When you're debugging something and then you figure out that not only is the map wrong but the tools are broken—that's a good time.

When you have been killed as many times as I have, you get used to it.

His pain. His own. He made it.

Look... to go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!'...

You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you," Jordan said.

just failing is not the key; the key is to be systematically learning from failures.

portrait of the theoretician as a young man. His first distinguishing feature is the serenity of indirect defeatism. Although he belongs to a collective of losers

Talvez, por menos oportuno que possa parecer, se devesse dizer mais uma vez: no mundo que sucedeu à graça, a arte foi o asilo das exceções que restaram.

suggesting that, though their situation might be strange , there was nothing new about suffering .

What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing...

You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart.

nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

When my childhood began coming back to me, I went off the rails for a bit. I became what you could charitably call "colorful." After a year or so of disgrace, I remembered that I was thirty-odd years old, no longer a child, that I had a calling of a kind, and I began to heal. Either childhood is a lot more painful the second time around, or it's just less bearable. None of us are as strong or as brave as the children we used to be.

Forgetting the injustices and seeming injustices which one suffered from one's parents during childhood and youth must be the major part of any maturing process.

But maybe it was only that Father was thinking that he must arrive in Memphis with the entire family household intact if he was to make a new go of things...He did enter so, and perhaps that is what sustained him in the years immediately afterward, sustained him and in some degree destroyed the rest of us.

matter what the bastards do. So what if my dad beat my mum, so what if my hubby fucked the babysitter, so

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

My family – my wife and my six children – was killed. I know who did it. I sometimes meet them in the street: they greet me and I greet them. I have forgiven them: they can never bring back my family, so it is the best thing to do. It is best to forget and to get on with life. (Forty-two-year-old ex-combatant, CNDD, now chef de colline, Nyanza-Lac)

Thats the thing about pain, it demands to be felt