Quotes About Resilience

but Phil looked up and gave them a weak smile. "Well," he said, "this isn't too bad. My left leg is broken, but at least I'm right-legged. That's pretty fortunate." "Gee," one of the other employees murmured. "I thought he'd say something more along the lines of 'Aaaaah! My leg! My leg!

I confess that if I were in Violet's place, with only a few minutes to open a locked suitcase, instead of on the deck of my friend Bela's yacht, writing this down, I probably would have given up hope. I would have sunk to the floor of the bedroom and pounded my fists against the carpet wondering why in the world life was so unfair and filled with inconveniences.

When the town aches, the Swinster Pharmacy aches with it.

Es inútil que os describa lo mal que se sintieron Violet, Klaus y Sunny el tiempo que siguió. Si habéis perdido a alguien muy importante para vosotros, ya sabéis lo que se siente; y, si nunca habéis perdido nadie, no os lo podéis imaginar.

the world, no matter how monstrously it may be threatened, has never been known to succumb entirely. The

Wretchedness. It is atrociously unfair, of course, that the Baudelaires have so many troubles, but that is the way the story goes. So now that I've told you that the first sentence will be "The Baudelaire

I looked at the poor, sickly plant, trying to grow in the coffee grounds instead of the earth, where it belonged. I wondered what happened to things that grew up in the wrong place.

Talán nem igazi erkölcsi mondanivaló az, hogy "itt vannak egymásnak", de nekik, hármuknak legalább vigaszt nyújtott ez a gondolat. Az, hogy "itt vannak egymásnak", éppen annyit jelentett a számukra, mint a viharban hányódónak a mentÅ'hajó, és Å'k tudták, hogy ez valójában mekkora szerencse.

Hacsak nem vagy varázslatosan szerencsés, akkor bizonyára történt már veled olyasmi az életben, amitÅ'l sírtál, és tudod azt is, hogy egy jó sírásban úgy megkönnyebbül a szív, ami akkor is elviselhetÅ'bbé teszi a dolgokat, ha azok egy szemernyit sem változtak.

Baudelaire children had a slightly different

We're not out of the woods yet.

Lemony Snicket

So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit. So

Keep your eyes open! Look out below! Look out above! Look out for spies! Look out for one another! Look out! Aye! Be very careful! Be very aware! Be very much! Take a break! No—keep going! Stay awake! Calm down! Cheer up! Keep climbing! Keep your shirt on! Aye!

Sometimes, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation. "I hate everything about our lives right now, Klaus," she said, "but we have to keep our chin up." This was an expression the children's father had used, and it meant "try to stay cheerful." -P. 32

Sunny Baudelaire

Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two--a schism or a death, a fire or a mutiny, the loss of a home or the destruction of a tea set.

You might compare your pimple situation to that of someone who was being eaten by a bear, and when you looked in the mirror at your ugly pimple, you could say to yourself, "Well, at least I'm not being eaten by a bear.

We are all told to ignore bullies. It's something they teach you, and they can teach you anything. It doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it. One should never ignore bullies. One should stop them.

Lemony Snicket

In this way, the story of the Baudelaire orphans is like an onion, and if you insist on reading each and every thin, papery layer in A Series of Unfortunate Events, your only reward will be 170 chapters of misery in your library and countless tears in your eyes.

Ha csak olyan történeteket szeretsz, amelyek jól végzÅ'dnek, szerencsésebb, ha más olvasmányt választasz.

turn into a literal one.

A legszörny?bb, legkilátástalanabb is jól el lehet viselni, ha a szeretet és az egymás iránti kedvesség uralkodik az emberek között.