Quotes About Resilience

Los pescadores saben que el mar es peligroso y la tormenta, terrible. Pero eso no les impide hacerse a la mar

Wat is het moeilijk om het gewone leven weer op te pakken en niet totaal ontmoedigd te raken door de onafwendbaarheid van de ellende

Anyone who leads an upright life and experiences real difficulty and disappointment and yet is not crushed by them is worth more than one for whom everything has always been plain sailing and who has known nothing but relative prosperity"_Page.52

one must never let the fire in one's soul die, for the time will inevitably come when it will be needed.

I always believe that I have a certain toughness in common with the peasants, who also do not eat so particularly well, and yet live and work on.

And yet, my dear sister, to what an extent doctors, engineers, in short lots of people, have more practical, stabler ideas than artists! As for me, I often think with a deep sigh that I ought to have been better than I am. Let me stop talking of it at once, or else it might discourage me. Well, the fact is that one cannot retrace one's steps, and the steps one has taken greatly influence the future.

Personally I believe that the adversities one meets with in the ordinary course of life do us as much good as harm. The very complaint that makes one ill today, overwhelming one with discouragement, that same thing - once the disease has passed off - gives us the energy to get up and to want to be completely recovered tomorrow.

How much sadness there is in life! Nevertheless one must not become melancholy. One must seek distraction in other things, and the right thing is to work.

Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

The sadness will last forever.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.

You fell off the tree of fucked-up-weird and slammed every branch on the way down.

The trick was learning to live without the grief and without the guilt. The trick was to create a life worth living, a life no longer conscious of death.

When life gives you lemons, you put the lemons down and go burn down a building." —Unidentified Pyromaniac

It seemed strange in a way. Only a little more than an hour before, I was about to be killed by a homicidal maniac. Now I was going out for pancakes. I recalled one of my mother's cherished sayings: God works in mysterious ways.

What is it that draws us back to the broken places? Maybe

I screamed without making a sound. I sobbed without shedding a tear. I died, though my heart beat on.

Saber fer les coses que no es volen fer ajuda a fer bé les coses que es volen fer

Is life too short to be taking this shit, or is life too short to be minding it?

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.