Quotes About Resilience

I know there was nothing anyone could do. But they were taking away an 86-year-old grandmother to a horrible death, and the village where she had lived all her life, where everybody loved her, had just looked on. The only thing that anyone had had to say was, 'Mrs. Bloch, don't be afraid...

Kovaly experienced the two supreme horrors of what Hannah Arendt called this terrible century.

A people on fire has no time to fan other people's flames.

We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather than bucking up and forging ahead. But what if your childhood was all a big misunderstanding? An elaborate ruse? What does that say about failure? Better yet, what does that say about potential?

Tiesin, kun annoin henkeni sylissäsi pedon puraisemana

If you can laugh, you're less likely to cry.

In comparison to what I've suffered from myself, the humiliation and suffering inflicted on me by others vanishes into insignificance.

Wenn nun aber die Natur einmal korrupt ist, was soll man tun?" "Erstens es wissen, als ein Verhängnis und ohne etwas Positives daraus machen zu wollen. Zweitens ihr trotzdem folgen. Ergreifen, wovon man ergriffen ist.

There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.

I genitori di mio nonno dovettero lasciare il villaggio, la tomba fresca della loro piccola: s misero a intrecciare cesti di vimini, non restarono a lungo in nessun luogo perché li addolorava vedere come dappertutto il pendolo della giustizia battesse falso e sbagliato.

Heinrich Gerlach

We had learned on the North Face of the Eiger that men are good and the earth on which we were born is good.

But I have at least learned to contemplate the events of life with tranquillity and not let myself be flung to and fro by circumstances in a sea of doubt.

We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good.

There are times when visible poverty has its advantages.

Decades of destruction, suppression, genocide, sterilization, and political indoctrination could not break the Tibetans' will for freedom, or their deep-rooted religious beliefs. On

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

I will not mourn, although my heart is torn,Oh, love forever lost! I will not mourn.

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

Soup is never eaten as hot as it is cooked.

There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.

Jews, homosexuals, and Gypsies, the yellow, pink and brown triangles, were the prisoners who suffered most frequently and most severely from the tortures and blows of the SS and the Capos. They were described as the scum of humanity, who had no right to live on German soil and should be exterminated… but the lowest of the low in this "scum" were we, the men with the pink triangle.