Quotes About Resilience

You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot stop Spring from coming

Será dura la lucha, la vida será dura, pero vendrás conmigo.

Cumpliendo con mi oficio piedra con piedra, pluma a pluma, pasa el invierno y deja sitios abandonados, habitaciones muertas: yo trabajo y trabajo, debo substituir tantos olvidos, llenar de pan las tinieblas, fundar otra vez la esperanza.

Dejé de ser niño porque comprendí que a mi pueblo no le permitieron la vida y le negaron la sepultura.

de nuevo te levanto, vida, sobre mis hombros

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

The older you get, the stronger the wind gets — and it's always in your face.

We artists are indestructible, even in a prison cell or a concentration camp I would be all right in my own world of art. Even if I had to paint my pictures with my tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

the levity of the doomed has no equal.

When there is little you can do, you do what you can.

She had so little control over her own life. Yet she took control, out of thin air for herself, when she could. I

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.

Choosing to be happy and saying thank you to whatever circumstances befall you is one of the most radical things you could ever do.

I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.

Writers, it is said, all carry a chip of ice in their hearts

I'm beginning to understand that when we want to kill ourselves, it is not because we are lonely, but because we are trying to break up with the world before the world breaks up with us.

We must find our own self-soothing techniques—mantras, meditation, movement—and embrace them in times of difficulty.

She told me that you get to have only one true love, and once you've found it, whether you kept it or lost it, you'd never recover...Accepting that was the hardest part.

Men who hurt Women are my favorite men to kill. Touch her and I'll send you straight to hell - with a smile on my face!

If you think your scars bother me, you're wrong. In my eyes, you're a hero. Your scars are just proof of that.

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We are all stumbling and falling under our own crosses, those carved from our hands, our sweat, and those not of our own making.

N.B. I think this is from a hymn.) O joy that seekest me through pain, I cannot close my heart to thee; I trace the rainbow through the rain, And feel the promise is not vain, That morn shall tearless be.

Nobody wants you to be an artist or a writer, Maggie said. Not only did the world not care if you ever painted a picture or wrote a book, the world kind of wished you wouldn't. Your challenge was to do it anyway.