Quotes About Resilience

Limited men with limitless energy; men quick to be friendly and quick to be fed up; men for whom the most serious thing in life is to keep going despite everything. And we were their sons.

Todo el mundo está insatisfecho, pero en general no se rompe, y, sobre todo, no rompen las personas que, a su vez, han sido abandonadas, como tú y tu hermano. Cuando pasas por lo que vosotros habéis pasado, valoras muchísimo la estabilidad, probablemente la valoras en exceso. Lo más difícil del mundo es cortar el nudo de tu vida y marcharte.

She's a fighter. She's fine. She's made tremendous strides." True—all the while he has been stoically enduring it she has made tremendous strides by finding it unendurable, by being devastated by it, destroyed by it, and then by denuding herself of it. She doesn't resist the blows the way he does; she receives the blows, falls apart, and when she gets herself up again, decides to make herself over.

The smile's refusal to recognize, let alone to sanction in himself, the savage obstinacy that seven decades of surviving requires of a man. As though anyone over ten believes you can subjugate with a smile, even one that kind and warm, all the things that are out to get you, with a smile hold it all together when the strong arm of the unforeseen comes crashing down on your head.

I never think in terms of expectations. My expectation is how to deal with bad news.

Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There's no other way.

Limited men with limitless energy; men quick to be friendly and quick to be fed up; men for whom the most serious thing in life is to keep going despite everything. And we were their sons. It was our job to love them.

The worst of being unbearably alone was that you had to bear it—either that or you were sunk.

Porque é em momentos assim que amamos as pessoas, quando as vemos decididas a enfrentar o pior. Não corajosas. Não heróicas. Simplesmente decididas.

that the Jews were victims before they were conquerors and that they are conquerors only because they are victims.

é straziante la violenza, quando scoppia in una casa: come vedere i vestiti su un albero dopo un'esplosione. puoi essere pronto a vedere la morte, ma non i vestiti sull'albero. E tutto per il fatto che mio padre non riusciva a capire che la natura di Alvin non era mai stata riformabile, nonostante i predicozzi e le minacce che l'affetto gli ispirava: tutto perché lo aveva preso in casa per salvarlo da ciò che semplicemente era nella sua natura diventare.

The deeper reasonability of seeking danger is that there is, in any event, no escaping it.

It is from his mother that Mr. Sabbath inherited his own ability never to get over anything.

Pero en cuanto quieres apasionadamente lo que se encuentra más allá de tu alcance, estás listo para la frustración, te estás preparando para cuando te obliguen a ponerte de rodillas.

You learn by sixty to accept in a sporting spirit the derision of virtuous bystanders.

Something always came along to make you keep living

I learned that back there in Weequahic in 1944 I'd lived through a summerlong social tragedy that didn't have to be a lifelong personal tragedy too.

intenté escribir lo que fue la «historia de mi vida» en los bosques, inmediatamente después de mi fuga del campo de concentración.

Maybe it's still a bit of an affront to people, to fail to abide by the old clock of life.

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you

They hadna sail'd a league, a league, A league but barely three, When the lift11 grew dark, and the wind blew loud, And gurly12 grew the sea.

Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

If you have to plan for a future beyond the forecasting horizon, plan for surprise. That means, as Danzig advises, planning for adaptability and resilience.

People on sinking ships do not complain of distractions during their prayer.