Quotes About Resilience

Some people were born to face life alone, and this is neither good nor bad, it is simply life.

Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.

If I accept it, rather than fight against it, things might change. I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

I, too, get scared, but it's at such moments that I discover a wisdom that is beyond me, and I go forward.

If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your denstination.

We will not fear the darkness because we are partners of the light.

Ksatria cahaya kadang-kadang berperilaku seperti air, mengalir memutari penghalang jalannya. Aliran air sungai menyesuaikan diri dengan alur apa pun yang tampak mungkin, tetapi sang sungai tak pernah melupakan tujuannya, yakni laut. Meskipun sangat rapuh dari sumber mata airnya, perlahan tapi pasti dia mengumpulkan kekuatan demi kekuatan dari sungai-sungai lain yang dijumpainya.

Só conseguimos ser generosos connosco nas poucas vezes que precisamos de ser severos.

When you can't go back, you only have to worry about the best way of moving forward.

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you. You're already familiar with the latter experience, allowing yourself to be swept along by fears, neuroses, insecurity, for all we have self-destructive tendencies.

Join with those who sing, tell stories, talk pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious, and can prevent others from becoming paralysed by depression, loneliness and difficulties.

But can one actually see beauty with eyes blurred by the lack of almost everything a human being needs?

And keep in mind that if you throw the KB into anything harder than sand you could break the handle; cast iron is hard but brittle.

theory of limit loads

Before embarking on a KB program, naturally you have to get a pair of kettlebells. The detective from a popular Russian thriller decides to become a better man, buys a kettlebell, and tries to sneak it into his office so he could work out after the hours. As he is huffing and puffing up the stairs, another cop sees him and raises his eyebrows: "Evidence?" —"No, private property.

If a kettlebell were a person, it would be the type of a guy you would want [on your side] in an alley fight. —Glenn Buechlein, powerlifter

We do not tolerate weakness at StrongFirst. You do not have a weak arm and a strong arm—but a strong and a stronger one.

I'm not as good as I once was, but I am as good once as I ever was.

You can only get your heart broke so many times before you forget how to offer it up at all.

Because a lie can never make you stronger, no matter how many times you tell it.

How many terrible moments for women begin with the words "so I opened the door"?

White folks don't have to do anything to you specifically. After they do it to a couple of other people that you know about, you are so incapacitated by fear that you ain't no use to the struggle anyhow.

Life is stronger than death.

Just as he lived with them alive, he will live with them dead. Someday he will accept their death as part of his life. He will weep no more. He will carry them in his memory and his thoughts. His flesh and blood are part of them. So long as he is alive, they, too, will live in him. The big wave came, but it went away. The sun shines again, birds sing, and earth flowers.