Quotes About Resilience

Rodwell wandered into No Man's Land and put a bullet through his ears. On Sunday, Robert sat on his bed in the old hotel at Bailleul and read what Rodwell had written. To my daughter, Laurine; Love your mother. Make your prayers against despair. I am alive in everything I touch. Touch these pages and you have me in your fingertips. We survive in one another. Everything lives forever. Believe it. Nothing dies. I am your father always.

Europe is a woman, now middle-aged, who has already had a number of heart attacks and is currently experiencing the biggest health crisis of her life, but one that need not be fatal.

Life is just there, to be made the best of, until it isn't. And that's all right, too.

these men signed up all those years ago for the full five-course meal, including the bitter dessert, and they got to this point without ever doing anything to push back from the table and use their lives to accomplish something useful.

The strong times, the weak times-- they all come in waves. Trust me, none of us has it together.

Do not let your hurt cause you to hate.

Give death a better name or die trying.

in time of desolation never make a change, but be firm and constant in the proposals and determination in which one was the day preceding such desolation, or in the determination in which one was in the preceding consolation.

La formación moral consiste en formar a la gente para ser lo bastante fuerte como para ponerse en pie y caminar.

People who avoid their fears also avoid their power.

God is simply taking you where you do not want to go to produce in you what you could not achieve on your own.

We shouldn't be surprised when suffering and difficulty come our way; in fact, we should probably be surprised when they don't.

If you choose to face conflict head on, it is full of risks and the potential for great hurt, but it can also be redemptive.

Remember, you can't avoid conflict, but it can be a place where amazing growth takes place!

Understand that conflict is one way God works in our lives

The health and maturity of a relationship are not measured by an absence of problems, but by the way the inevitable problems are handled.

brings to mind the tribulations of those groups—blacks in the 19th century, women in the 20th, gays in the 21st—who have learned through struggle that freedom is not given, only claimed.

For tyrants, the lesson of the Reichstag fire is that one moment of shock enables an eternity of submission. For us, the lesson is that our natural fear and grief must not enable the destruction of our institutions.

In the most dangerous of times, those who escape and survive generally know people whom they can trust. Having old friends is the politics of lost resort. And making new ones is the first step toward change.

Institutions do not protect themselves. They fall one after the other unless each is defended from the beginning. So choose an institution you care about—a court, a newspaper, a law, a labor union—and take its side. We tend to assume that institutions will automatically maintain themselves against even the most direct attacks. This was the very mistake that some German Jews made about Hitler and the Nazis after they had formed a government.

Daddy and mommy are in the kolkhoz The poor child cries as alone he goes There's no bread and there's no fat The party's ended all of that Seek not the gentle nor the mild A father's eaten his own child The party man he beats and stamps And sends us to Siberian camps38

murdered and killing another 10,380 Jews in the ghetto itself. Teresa saved a family from certain death.

Institutions do not protect themselves. They fall one after the other unless each is defended from the beginning.

History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.