Quotes About Resilience

Strahopetni umira tiso?krat, hrabri enkrat.

You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw

Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

We didn't believe in tomorrow. We we couldn't forget what had happened yesterday.

When you live next to death ... you don't think about it anymore, you just try to encounter it as seldom as possible.

Once, back home, I decided to count how many days out of my twenty months in Afghanistan I'd been on combat missions. 217 days. And I'm still paying the price for every one of those days.

Sisyphus would hardly stop if even he is on the top.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

[Optimism] is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Those who wear out in faith and energy, and take to easy chairs and soft living;

They said everything outside killed, so I thought nothing did.

How can I tell her to be glad she's alive, when she knows she'll never walk on the desert again, or find me a diamond for some patron's earring, never gentle another horse, never make love?" "I don't know," Smoke said. "But if you and Alex see her life as a tragedy, that's what it will be.

The lesson of my childhood was that if you anticipate misfortune, you make it hurt less. It's a fool's truth, but what truth isn

Behold the man. (Ecce Homo)

Whoever the searchlights catch, Whatever the loudspeakers blare, We are not to despair.

To keep happy seems like walking on stilts. When one is tired, one falls off.

The Indian always took two pairs of moccasins on his trips, because when one became wet or worn out, he always had a second pair handy.

I knew, though, that life was never that easy, that instead of doors being opened for you, to get anywhere, you had to jump over fences.