Quotes About Resilience

Even if they found themselves in Heaven, our countrymen would find occasion to remark that it was not as warm as Hell.

By now the only part of me not seating were my eyeballs... An X-ray of my skull would have shown a hamster running furiously in an exercise wheel...

So it was that we soaped ourselves in sadness and we rinsed ourselves with hope,

Even if they found themselves in Heaven, our countrymen would find occasion to remark that it was not as warm as Hell. Why's

He had a Minnesotan's admiration for resourcefulness in the face of hardship, bred by generations of people one very bad winter away from starvation and cannibalism.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE WROTE THAT "if something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases to hurt stays in the memory.

Revolutions begin this way, with men willing to fight no matter what the odds, volunteering to give up everything because they had nothing.

So it was that we soaped ourselves in sadness and we rinsed ourselves wit hope, and for all that we believed almost every rumor we heard, almost all of us refused to believe that our nation was dead.

No, we fought to the tunes of love songs, for we were the Italians of Asia.

Perhaps my problem was that I thought we Vietnamese had hit bottom, under the French, and then saw there was another bottom beneath that with the Americans, when in reality, there was yet another bottom to discover - our own.

There was only one solution to this alienation that was created not by the Negro or the bastard, but by the real bastards, the racists and colonizers who blamed the victim for the conditions that the victimizer created. And that solution was "to rise above this absurd drama that others have staged around me, to reject the two terms that are equally unacceptable, and, through one human being, to reach out for the universal.

Now there's nowhere to go but America. There are worse places, I said. Perhaps, he said.

Thousands more must be staring into darkness like us, gripped by scandalous thoughts, extravagant hopes, and forbidden plots. We lie in wait for the right moment and the just cause, which, at this moment, is simply wanting to live.

Strong and healthy, that's what these twins will be. They'll need to be. This country isn't for the weak or the fat.

Haunted and haunting, human and inhuman, war remains with us and within us, impossible to forget but difficult to remember.

Despair may be thick, but friendship's thicker.

W]ho would have thought that by the mid-twentieth century the darker nations would gather in Cuba, once the playground of the plutocracy, to celebrate their will to struggle and their will to win? What an audacious thought: that those who had been fated to labor without want, now wanted to labor in their own image!

We convert temporary defeats into permanent failures when we live lives far away from God, His Plans & His Purpose for us !

It is a destiny of a woman to suffer in silence.

a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.

The incredible length of Bombay sped by, those endless sprawls of buildings, huts and shacks, children squatting and shitting by the tracks, refuse, the crowded grey roads twisting and winding between, all of it blurred but fearsome in its strength, in its very life that grew it unstoppably.

Disappointment is stronger than a thousand of you.

Dying in a battle is much better then living after being rejected on love, because one time death is much better then dying every day"

To steel yourself against mangoes showed a degree of iciness that was almost inhuman.