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Quotes About Resilience

I have ridden out all the storms," said Shakespeare, "even the ones I wrote myself. Here, look, it begins…
~ Jeanette Winterson
Biz hissedecek ÅŸekilde tasarlar?mlan?p inÅŸa edildik, dolay?s?yla hiçbir zihinsel halimiz, hiçbir düÅŸüncemiz yoktur ki ayn? zamanda bir duygu durumu olmas?n. Hiçbirimiz a??r?, kald?rabileceÄŸimizden fazla hissetmeyiz, ancak baz?lar?m?z mümkün olduÄŸunca az hissedebilmek için elinden geleni yapar.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Stories are where I live - they are physical three-dimensional places to me. When I was a kid and locked in the coal hole for various crimes, I had a choice: count coal - a limited activity. Tell myself a story - an unlimited world of the imagination.
~ Jeanette Winterson
None of us lives without loss. Or regret. But none of us need live without imagination. We can learn to see past ourselves.
~ Jeanette Winterson
History is not a suicide note -- it is a record of our survival.
~ Jeanette Winterson
because if you are raised on the Bible, you don't just walk away, whatever anybody says.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I've thought of killing myself so many times. I don't do it, not because I am a coward, but because it would be easier for me to be dead. What's my life? I make money and I make memories. That's not a life. I don't kill myself because living is my own life sentence.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Suffer, die, or get better; but whatever you do, live while you are alive.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
So much good my persecutors have done me by recklessly pouring out all the shafts of their hatred. They have deprived themselves of any power over me and henceforward I can laugh at them. It
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
İnsanlar? daha iyi tan?mak, beni içine düÅŸürdükleri ac?lar? daha iyi duymaya yarad?; üstelik kurduklar? tuzaklar? birer birer gördüÄŸüm halde, düÅŸmeme engel olamad?.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Unii m? vor g?si caraghios, semeÅ£: puÅ£in îmi pas?! Trebuie s? ÅŸtiu a înfrunta râsul ÅŸi ocara, cu condiÅ£ia s? nu le merit.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Haç kartal? kovunca, Romal?lara özgü o gözü peklik de yitip gitti.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Objektif bak?mdan, ezilenlerin teselli olarak bir Tanr?'ya inanmalar?, halk y???nlar?n? mücadeleden uzaklaÅŸt?rmaktan baÅŸka bir sonuç vermez.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Binbir yere baÄŸlanmaya çal???rken hepsi elimden kaç?p da kendi kendime kal?nca, dengemi yeniden buldum. Her yandan s?k??t?r?lmama kar??n o dengeyi koruyorsam, art?k hiçbir ÅŸeye baÄŸlanmad???mdan, yaln?zca kendime dayand???mdand?r.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you're willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
JIMMY BEST ON HIS BACK TO THE SUCKERPUNCH OF HIS CHILDHOOD FILES
~ Jean-Michel Basquiat
I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselves to them.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
Don't worry," said Maddy. "People didn't make life, so they can't destroy it. Even if we were to wipe out every bit of life in the world, we can't touch the place life comes from. Whatever made plants and animals and people spring up in the first place will always be there, and life will spring up again.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
Instead of getting at the other side with something just as bad as they did to you - or something worse - you do something good. Or at least you keep yourself from doing something bad
~ Jeanne DuPrau
But how could you? said Lina. When people have been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them? You wouldn't want to, Maddy said. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
I don't think there's such a thing as an easy life. There's always going to be hard work, and there will always be misfortunes we can't control lurking out at the edges—storms, sickness, wolves. But there is such a thing as a good life, and I think we have one here.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
People had figured it out once, she thought. They could figure it out again.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
You know, son, I don't think there's such a thing as an easy life. There's always going to be hard work, and there will always be misfortunes we can't control lurking out at the edges - storms, sickness, wolves. But there is such a thing as a good life, and I think we have one here -Mr. Harrow
~ Jeanne DuPrau