Quotes About Resilience

Africans believed they were being captured and shipped over the ocean to be eaten. The insecurity of life in a world of slavery is hard to imagine, let alone the extraordinary length of time that the threat of abduction loomed.

When times are the toughest, don't get discouraged. God may be fixing to do something wonderful

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

In the end, with this combination of frustration, resistance and enthusiasm, I hope I will have gained a little more soul.

Recuerdo haber visto, en imágenes de archivo, a cerdos paseándose por la Biblioteca Nacional de Phnom Penh, vaciada por los jemeres rojos. Derribaban sillas y pisoteaban mondaduras. Los cerdos sustituían a los libros. Y nosotros sustituíamos a los cerdos.

Había que sobrevivir. Ése era nuestro primer deber. Nuestro primer combate. Rebelarse significaba, en primer lugar, vivir. O más bien: seguir vivo.

Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.

Chris, with Dana steadfastly at his side, would battle back to become both a leader in the fight to cure spinal cord injuries and a symbol of hope for millions.

I finally understand what it means to find that someone who is everything to you. Once you've found that kind of love, you must hold on to it-no matter what or who gets in the way. - Princess Diana

For those who never give up

And she shared the philosophy Jackie expressed when a friend of hers warned that by marrying Ari she would fall off her pedestal. "It's better," Jackie replied, "than freezing there.

Don't ever put your happiness in someone else's hands. They'll drop it. They'll drop it every time.

You're like a candle in a dark room, throwing light backwards and forwards.

My heart was defective. It was defecting a little more each day.

Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.

If oppression produced saints, we'd want everyone to be oppressed.

I can't ask you to banish your fears, your anxiety or your anger...But don't let them use you up.

He felt water run down his back from the damp brickwork he was sitting against, and as he worried distantly about corrosion he realised you can always fall a little further. A moment ago he thought he'd bottomed out, but now he was concerned about personal rust. Mother of fuck.

The trickiest thing about not killing yourself is knowing that if one day you decide it was a mistake, then you'll always be able to rectify it. Opting against suicide may be a choice for life, but it's not for life.

Some things shape you for the long haul, he reflects, no matter what twists and turns your life may take.

They both looked younger than him, as well as taller, better built and undoubtedly more schooled in the noble art of punching fuck out of people. Nonetheless, younger doesn't necessarily mean faster or fitter, and Parlabane was highly schooled in the arguably less noble art of running away.

McGregor had another look at each of the boats, as though he might have failed to notice the first time that one of them was actually fine. They remained consistently jiggered. Short of sticking one of the outboards up his arse, lying on his back and opening his legs, it looked like he was here for the duration.

dagoes. With obscenity