Quotes About Resilience

The bloody-minded resilience with which they responded to disasters, especially those of their own making, their determination to liberate their territories no matter what, had been my first glimpse of what would one day be known as the Spirit of Resistance.

I needed the company of another failure to make my own bearable.

For it's human nature even in the direst extremity to see a spark of hope and blow it into flames.

There wasn't a stick over which he didn't stumble, and if he had bread he wouldn't have a knife, and if he had both bread and a knife he wouldn't be able to find the salt. His

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

The twelfth-century poet Abraham ibn Ezra, whom you encountered in high school as Browning's Rabbi ben Ezra (may his tribe increase), limpidly described the shlimazl's lot when he wrote: If I sold lamps, The sun, In spite, Would shine at night.

There is a saying, "A patsh fargeyt, a vort bashteyt"—"A slap passes, but a word [that is, an insult] remains.

For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.

Jaschwin, ein Spieler und ein Trunkenbold, ein völlig grundsatzloser Mensch ohne Moral, war im Regiment Wronskijs bester Freund. Er mochte ihn wegen seiner unwahrscheinlichen körperlichen Konstitution, die sich hauptsächlich darin ausdrückte, daß er wie ein bodenloses Fass saufen und auf Schlaf verzichten konnte, ohne daß man ihm nur das geringste anmerkte.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was taken prisoner, or go through it all again, I should say, for God's sake let me rather be a prisoner and eat horseflesh again. We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over, but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There is a great deal, a great deal before us.

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

Enough or not...it will have to do

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair!

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.