Quotes About Resilience

This savings gave her a little security since you can't fall farther than the ground.

I always wanted to reach a state of peace and non-struggle. I thought that was the ideal state. But it so happens that — that am I really me without my struggle? No, I don't know how to have peace.

Por isso a poesia dos poetas que sofreram é doce, terna. E a dos outros, dos que de nada foram privados, é ardente, sofredora e rebelde.

But as long as I have myself I won't be alone

I am being joyful in this very instant because I refuse to be defeated: so I love.

Romperei todos os nãos que existem dentro de mim, provarei a mim mesma que nada há a temer

All lives are heroic lives.

She had survived like a still-moist microbe among the scorching-hot, dry rocks, thought Joana. On that already old afternoon (a circle of life closed, work finished), the afternoon she had received the man's note, she had chosen a new path. Not to run away, but to go. To use her father's untouched money, the inheritance abandoned until now, and roam, roam, be humble, suffer, be shaken to her core, without hopes. Above all without hopes

Esperar menos não significa desistir. Antes se surpreender, do que se decepcionar.

La actitud debe ser: no se pierde por esperar, no se pierde por no entender.

Siento que no puedo parar y me asusto. Procuro distraerme del miedo. Pero ya hace mucho que pararon los golpes reales, estoy sintiendo el incesante redoblar en mí.

Özgürlük? Benim nihai s???na??m, kendimi özgürlüÄŸe zorlad?m ve bunu bir yetenek gibi deÄŸil de kahramanl?k gibi ta??yorum: kahramanca özgürüm. Ve ak??? istiyorum.

I knew that cockroaches could go more than a month without food or water. And they could even survive on wood for food. And even after you step on them they come apart slowly and keep on walking all the while. Even when they freeze, after they thaw out they keep on going. For three hundred and fifty million years, they have reproduced with no change. When the world was practically naked, they walked slowly across it.

Byrd anticipated the crisis of loneliness. What he had not counted on was how closely a man could come to dying and still not die or want to die.

Often, I thought: "Surely this is it. He has reached the breaking point." He seemed at the very end of his power and resources. But he kept coming until I wondered whether I had not reached the breaking point. The only thing that kept me going was the certainty that without me there would be no one.

Constant and determined effort breaks down all resistence and sweeps away all obstacles.

To win you've got to stay in the game.

Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I must confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!Her vigor flows like tides into my blood,Giving me strength erect against her hate.Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood.

Oh, I must keep my heart inviolate Against the potent poison of your hate.

Your door is shut against my tightened face, And I am sharp as steel with discontent; But I possess the courage and the grace To bear my anger proudly and unbent.

Life is like a bicycle you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

Por eso el demonio hace grandes esfuerzos para producir en nosotros esa mala tristeza y, para conseguir desalentar al alma y desesperarla, intenta antes que nada perturbarla.

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.