Quotes About Resilience

I don't know if we have everything necessary to be victorious over cruelty and chaos," I said. She looked up from her typewriter and tilted her hat at me. "What is necessary?" "Cruelty and chaos," I said, and stood up.

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Excerpt from A Series of Unfortunate Events #3: The Wide Window

Adiar um choro não faz sentido. Tristeza é como um crocodilo violento cercando você. Só dá para ignorá-lo enquanto ele não está devorando tudo ao seu redor

Mie? siebie nawzajem w zamÄ™cie nieszcz??liwego ?ycia to byÅ'o tak, jakby mie? ?aglówkÄ™ w zamÄ™cie huraganu.

A great man once said that right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Do you understand what that means?

Por pior que seja o ambiente a nossa volta, ele pode ser suportado, desde que as pessoas que nele se encontram sejam interessantes e gentis.

We're all afraid...We were afraid when we met Captain Sham in the grocery store. We were afraid when we thought that you had jumped out the window. We were afraid to give ourselves allergic reactions, and we were afraid to steal a sailboat and we were afraid to make our way across this lake in the middle of a hurricane. But that didn't stop us.

Lemony Snicket

It was like the growing distance I felt inside myself, between the person I wanted to be, the brave volunteer who would soon triumph against evil treachery, and the person I was, sitting in a room with damp socks and a bump on his head, turning a compass around and around in his hands. What are you doing here? I thought. What good are you? But I did not know if I was talking to the compass or the boy who was holding it.

I swung back and forth like a ship in a storm, with the clouds swirling over me like the sea. The sky was still there. No one had drained it away.

Count Olaf has been captured," she said, and the Baudelaires felt as if a bolt of lightning had struck them once more.

After the death of the Baudelaire parents, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny had found themselves under the care of a variety of guardians. Some of them had been cruel. Some of them had been murdered.

Lemony Snicket

Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.

Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.

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

It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!

I've been taking things too seriously for years,' I said. 'I'm afraid it makes me a difficult man to live with. But I've stayed alive, sweetheart. And that means a lot to me.

Keith Park was a popular and persuasive man. He had quelled a near mutiny in 1918 by assembling the airmen and talking to them on random subjects and in such a monotonous voice for so long that all rebelliousness was destroyed by fatigue.

As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.