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Quotes About Resilience

Survival, in fact, is about the connection between things. [Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism]
~ Colum McCann
After Schächter's final performance, Eichmann is reported to have said: Those crazy Jews, singing their own requiem.
~ Colum McCann
She could feel the coolness, a whole childhood of it, falling through her. Rain on the coral beach in Galway. White tennis balls on the broken court. Her brother at his shortwave radio. A nest of wires and voices. Her father's cattle huddled on a laneway. The broken church bell. A grass verge of green in the laneway. High windows. Too tall for the school chairs. The milk came in small silver cans. She would not cry or whimper. She had always refused him that.
~ Colum McCann
Pain's nothing. Pains what you give, not what you get.
~ Colum McCann
Rami said to the audience that all walls were destined to fall, no matter what. He was not so naive, though, to believe that more would not be built. It was a world of walls. Still, it was his job to insert a crack in the one most visible to him.
~ Colum McCann
The soldiers called the bullets Lazarus pills: when possible, they could be picked up and used again.
~ Colum McCann
We, the Palestinians, became the victims of the victims
~ Colum McCann
We stumble on, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.
~ Colum McCann
A volte sono depresso e non apro bocca per giorni. In quei casi, non deve pensare che sia di cattivo umore. Basta lasciarmi stare e presto mi passa.
~ Conan Doyle
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
~ Confucius
When the wind blows,the grass bends.
~ Confucius
The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.
~ Confucius
As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.
~ Confucius
It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up...
~ Confucius
A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.
~ Confucius
Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.
~ Confucius
Don't grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead.
~ Confucius
The ultimate revenge is living well and being happy. Hateful people can't stand happy people. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."-
~ Confucius
Kebanggaan kita yang terbesar adalah bukang tidak pernah gagal, tetapi bangkit kembali setiap kali kita jatuh.
~ Confucius
Things that are done, it is needless to speak about; things that have had their course, it is needless to remonstrate about; things that are past, it is needless to blame.
~ Confucius
It doesn't matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop
~ Confucius
Man who get kicked in testicles left holding bag
~ Confucius
It doesn't matter how slowly you go as long as you don't stop.
~ Confucius
It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.
~ Confucius