Quotes About Resilience

The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr — smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.

All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man bestrides animality, and the whole of humanity, in space and in time, is one immense army galloping beside and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge able to beat down every resistance and clear the most formidable obstacles, perhaps even death.

the art of life, mostly, the art of avoiding pain

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself "All is lost. I have to start all over again." This is not true. What you have gained you have gained....When you return to the the road, you return to the place where you left it, not to where you started.

On a rigolé à la face de la lune […], et nos rires c'étaient des poings levés contre toute la misère […], pour lui dire qu'on n'avait même pas mal.

Essaie de ne jamais oublier les rêves. La vie, les gens, tous essaieront de t'empêcher d'être libre. La liberté, c'est un boulot de tous les jours. Un boulot à plein temps.

When you're out of willpower, you can call on stubbornness.

Tu peux être tranquille. Il reste du limpide en toi. En une seule vie tu n'as pas pu tout souiller.

I myself was a torrent, I was drowned, I was navigation. My great constitution hall, my ambassador's hall, my hall for gifts and exchanges into which I usher foreigners for a first examination—I had lost all my halls with my servants. I was alone, shaken around violently like a dirty thread in an energetic wash.

Odchodzisz beze mnie, moje ?ycie, Toczysz si?, A ja wci?? czekam, zanim zrobi? krok, Ty ju? gdzie indziej stajesz do walki ...

If I'm ever stuck on a respirator or a life support system I definitely want to be unplugged. But not until I'm down to a size eight.

Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Oh courage… oh yes! If only one had that… Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.

Klag ikke under stjernene over mangel på lyspunkter i ditt liv

Men Det maa ei hviskes stille. Sandheds Ven ei blot maa ville. Vær i Et og Alt dig Selv! Det er Sejrens Kunst, min Sjel! Som Stefanen mellem Stene maa du staae, om selv alene.

When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it it was a very spiritual time for me.