Quotes About Resilience

All has been done, each theme has been attack'd, And Authors' Heads are like a city sack'd!

I swam to shore, therefore i am

Nichts tröstet, weil nichts ein Leben ersetzen kann.

Ils etaient divorces, mais ne le savaient pas. Tant de gens croient faire l'amour quand if ne font que de la presence. Quand un amour de jeunesse colle si durablement a la peau, on risque de s'ecorcher a trop voulouir s'en defaire. Quand un francais se plaint, c'est que la vie reprend.

The concept of barroom shoot-outs and duels in the sun have no part in our tradition either, possibly because we have had so few barrooms and so little sun. (It is awkward to reach efficiently for a six-gun while wearing a parka and two pairs of mittens.)

Never retract, never explain, get things done and let them howl.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry.

La foudre abat les monts, non les petites herbes

C'est le trait terrible du vieillissement : il vous donne bientôt la gaieté du coeur qui permet d'accepter comme allant de soi des retranchements sur les sens et sur le coeur, considérés auparavant comme de monstrueuses avaries.

Do what you must, let happen what may

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.

At 18, I could have not been here. I could have been another statistic. All the odds were in favour of my just going to prison at that age. I had no visions of being a superstar.

My childhood was not always a happy one because we had to visit our father in jail, as my father was often imprisoned by the Pakistani rulers.

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.

On a visit to Cologne in March 1945, after a heavy bombing, I met hundreds and hundreds of deserters who were squatting in the rubble, many in the deep cellars left from Roman times. They had been hiding there after the retreat from France.

I told the truth about the Miami life. It's a nice place to visit, but you don't want to live here. I lived through two major riots and three Category 5 hurricanes, I don't know if a lot of people could say that.

When I was a kid we'd go and visit my grandmother, and my dad is one of eight so they'd all be sitting there updating everyone on the good things but also on the fact that so and so had cancer or had lost their job, and people would make jokes.

When you're being bullied, it can feel like no one cares, and I'm so excited to tell the teens at the schools I visit that I wouldn't be there if their school didn't care.

I'm a fully trained cosmonaut and have completed 800 hours training, which has made me the No. 1 civilian reserve ready to visit the International Space Station. I am determined to go up, and I want to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond!