Quotes About Resilience

Freedom in its existential struggle, greater than the tragedy of fear.

You will find out who you are when the difficult moment comes.

It's not easy being human. Especially when you are tired and overworked all the time... That's when you become inhuman.

Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head.

SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO GET MUDDY

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing-if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.

face it, fighting his way, but he couldn't make it. He

The future is built on the ruins of the past and inhabited by its ghosts.

Hope is determination, you think. Hope is desperation. Hope is a yearning you can't deny. And hope is just plain old-fashioned insanity.

the crescent sun is high, the moon low; life is not for the faint-hearted; so why the fuck should art be?

Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is in the doing, not the getting—in the trying, not the triumph. WYNN DAVIS

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." ANN LANDERS

Open Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose!

He was all iron outside, but all father within.

Þegar öllu er á botninn hvolft, þá fer allt einhvernveginn, þótt margur efist um það á tímabili.

The tyranny of mankind; it was like the obstinate drip of water falling on a stone and hollowing it little by little; and this drip continued, falling obstinately, falling without pause on the souls of the children.

When I held that statuette, I felt as if I had won a triumph not just for myself, but for every other woman who'd struggled to overcome the same sort of background.

Sexiness is a state of mind -- a comfortable state of being. It's about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.

My mother always said to me, 'You're going to have to work harder and have to be better, and you can't take no for an answer'.

War either makes you a fascist or a fag.)

Hver gang hun føler seg trengt opp i et hjørne, bryter hun ut i: «Nei, for du er vel mer vant til å håndtere lik, du.» Eller: «Du tåler det bare ikke når folk gjør noe så kjedelig som å puste eller snakke, du.» Eller: «Kan du ikke bare kverke meg, da?» Men bortsett fra det er alt fint.

Wir sind alle ein bisschen gestorben in diesem Krieg, glaube ich. Wie meine Mutter immer gesagt hat. Krieg tötet alle, auch die, die ihn überleben.

You're ripped at every edge but you're a masterpiece.