Quotes About Resilience

A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

Noli nothis permittere te terere

As never before, our world needs warmth in its cold, metallic heart, warmth to go on and face what has been made of human life, warmth to remain humane and kind.

When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and the most interminable, and to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter the swamp as a sacred place--a sanctum sanctorum; there is the strength, the marrow of Nature.

People lead lives of quiet desperation.

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm.

Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.

Yo quería hacer algo atrevido y desesperado para demostrarle cuánto me enojaba lo que el mundo le había hecho. "Pero no debe ser así. Si luchas contra el mundo, te aplastará. Si eres más astuto que el mundo, te compensará". - Horowitz

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