Quotes About Resilience

Seu pai o conduzirá com cuidado até a ponta do penhasco e depois o segurará com força. Quando o filho tentou recuar, o homem o agarrou e o forçou a olhar para o abismo. Sentiu medo?, perguntou o pai. Nunca se esqueça disso. É o que vai sentir toda vez que fraquejar.

Deixe a raiva seguir seu curso ou ela pode consumir você.

I have given this offer more consideration than it is due already. Now, fuck off. Then keep fucking off. Fuck off until you come up to a gate with a sign saying 'You Can't Fuck Off Past Here.' Climb over the gate, dream the impossible dream, and keep fucking off forever.

The way out of a crisis was to deal with it as it was, not as you wished it were.

Real invention is a process of repeated, crushing failure that leads, very rarely, to a success. If you want to succeed faster, there's nothing for it but to fail faster and better.

you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.

She had been beaten down by too many boys and men, too much hurt and poverty and fear. This was what Mala was destined to become, someone who ran from her attackers because she couldn't afford to anger them. She wouldn't do it.

Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

So far, I've managed to spend more time free than behind bars. Paranoia is my friend.

There are some factors you can control, and some you can't. Wishing things were different won't make them different.

humans are bright enough to think our way out of the problems we think ourselves into.

The network interprets censorship as damage and routes around it

It was considered insanely hard to poison a computer's BIOS remotely, but if I was going to rebuild a computer that had been fatally pwned, ignoring the BIOS would be like changing all your house locks after losing your keys but leaving all the windows unlocked.

Martin tried to shut her down by talking about the intrinsically vulnerable circumstances of farming, and she countered by snappishly reminding them all of the vulnerability of fucking starving to death.

Bless the wooly alt. hierarchy and all those who sail in her.

Screw the end of the world. The world doesn't end. Humans aren't the kind of things that have endings.

She reminded me of some of the women I'd known in the Middle East, brave fuckers who'd managed to look like a million bucks even as their cities were being pounded to gravel around their pretty shoulders, fearless beneath their hijabs and glamorous even when they were covered in dust and blood.

Remember, it isn't the snake bite that does the serious damage; it's chasing the snake that drives the poison to the heart.

People can numb themselves, get used to anything.

we are only human, a condition of perpetual uncertainty and failure.

You always fall hardest the first time, don't you? There's no bottom to it.

He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't.

You gotta laugh because if you didn't you'd cry

Most of life's battles are won or lost in the mind.