Quotes About Resilience

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

You think your muscles hurt? Try a blade in the belly.

At first, the pinpricks felt like hot fly bites down the soft white skin over her spine and along her shoulders. The first time Rina flinched, the mage had admonished her harshly. She hadn't moved again.

Prinn lived by one governing thought: Whenever life seems to be going surprisingly well, just wait ten seconds and everything will go back to shit like normal.

part of the battle, before things had gone from bad to worse. Alem imagined himself in Tosh's position, with death coming

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul

People do not lack strength, they lack will.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

It ain't brave if you ain't scared.

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

I must make notes even now, I must, no matter how dangerous it is. That is my professional courage.

Poppe, once a leading figure at a scientific research institute, found a job as a swimming pool attendant

Why survive if it is not for those who do not?

For lack of anything better... it is the failure of others that makes for the strength of the fühers. When there's no worthwhile banner, you start to march behind worthless ones.

Learning is, after all, not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. -Richard Bach

I've even heard of a guy whose chronic migraine was cured by a bullet to the head. The craziest part of it was that he had actually set out to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head because of the headaches which had persistently refused to yield to treatment