Quotes About Resilience

There is nothing that a coward hates more than to be reminded of his own weakness.

Everywhere on this day, the after-war continues, as eternally as war itself

Congratulations for conquering PTSD. And now you're fucked.

impotency; many developed

La base de las habilidades blandas es la inteligencia emocional y para eso es crucial aprender a domar el caballo de la mente y las emociones.

En otras palabras, tener inteligencia emocional no le garantiza el éxito, pero no tenerla le garantiza el fracaso (Cherniss y Goleman, 1998 en Hyatt, L., Hyatt, B. y Hyatt, J., 2007).

To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish

You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. ... How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away.

That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it. (on the wall of a bedroom at a recovery house for alcoholics and drug addicts)

it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.

And when he came to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.

These worst mornings with cold floors and hot windows and merciless light - the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.

She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.

Try to let what is unfair teach you…what is unfair can be a stern but invaluable teacher…you can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard.

the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.

Hang me upside-down and fuck me in both ears. You pulled yourself out of a clinical depression by being a freaking hero.

I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.

every failure is also a victory.

You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between.

La verdad es lo que te hará libre. Pero no hasta que haya acabado contigo.

That it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

Surely we all dealt with and reconciled ourselves to a life many of whose features were out of our control. It was part of living in a world full of other people with other interests.