Quotes About Resilience

In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed. Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal.

Because to suffer and do nothing is to be nothing, while to suffer and do something is to become someone.

How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?

Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.

Some of us give up[…] with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others—and I am one of those—never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success.

I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent.

No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.

In my experience, a castaway's worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little.

I am magical: I can bleed for five days and not die.

Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you.

Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.

Love is a house with an unshakable foundation and an indestructible roof.

Strach to jedyny prawdziwy przeciwnik ?ycia.

Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others.

Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness.

life will defend itself no matter how smallit is

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent.

And I survived because I made a point of forgetting.

Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others- and I am one of those-never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter what the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It's not a question of courage. It's...an inability to let go. It may be nothing more than life hungry stupidity.

Above all, don't lose hope

Things didn't turn out the way they were suppsed to, but qhat can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr. Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger.

Machen Sie weiter, bis das Tier, das Ihnen zusetzt - ob Tiger, ob Rhinozeros - grün vor Seekranheit ist. Sie müssen hören, wie es sich die Seele aus dem Leibe spuckt.