Quotes About Resilience

a powerful woman will always attract slander

My advice to you is to guard yourself as you rise and destroy your enemies as you fall.

I was near to delighted laughter because Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.

She is a being not of this world," my great-aunt says quietly. "She tried to live like an ordinary woman, but some women cannot live an ordinary life. She tried to walk in the common ways, but some women cannot put their feet to that path. This is a man's world, Jacquetta, and some women cannot march to the beat of a man's drum.

Don't waste your courage on hating him. Keep yourself to yourself. And keep up your courage.

We all want triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference.

And it was Anne who was before the table like a prisoner before the bar. She did not stand with her head bowed as I always did. Anne stood with her head high, one dark eyebrow slightly raised, and she met my uncle's glare as if she were his equal.

But Elizabeth and I are accustomed to loss, we are Plantagenets—we dine on a diet of betrayal and heartbreak.

And nobody in this world will ever call me Mrs. Fool.

I think I've had my best days and I never expect to be happy again. But no, you're wrong. I want to live. I would rather live than die and I would rather be queen than dead. But I'm not frightened of you or your knife. I've promised myself that I will never care for anything that you say or do. And if I were afraid, I would rather die than let you see it." He

They are girls to whom things happen, and they take it hard. But I bear myself as more than a silly girl. I am the daughter of a water goddess. I am a woman with water in her veins and power in her breeding. I am a woman who makes things happen, and I am not defeated yet. I am not defeated by a boy with a newly won crown, and no man will ever walk away from me certain that he won't walk back.

Ne postoji ništa što ?ovek može u?initi nego da podnosi. Možete besneti ili možete plakati, ali na kraju ?ete nau?iti kako to podnosti.

I'm not a girl, afraid of the unknown, I am a woman; I can face fear, I can walk towards it.

For who could resist a woman who could fall from being queen to commoner and yet still carry herself as if greatness was within?

We teach our boys and girls to know their fear and step towards it as their friend. To use it as a warning. Far braver to face it than go away.

Dos 70 ou mais familiares que vivam em Lemberg e Zolkiew quando a guerra começou, o único sobrevivente foi Leon.

The three things in life he'd wanted to avoid had all come to pass: "to wear eyeglasses, to lose my hair, and to become a refugee.

I didn't just come in on a load of turnips!

Life is not a success-only journey. You are going to get beat up along the way. And you've got to have the strength of character to get up and get back in the game.

Writing is like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.

She could no longer hear the birds. She tried to concentrate on the pain instead—old Moonscar had told her there was a way, somewhere, of using pain as a ladder to climb above pain. It was a very dark way…she could tell only that the blade seemed to be cutting an angle.

Submission and humility will not protect you from the injustices of this war. Nothing can. But clarity, and solidarity in action, will allow you to fight back - and to keep sane, no matter what happens.

It is impossible for a Westerner to imagine the deadening torpor of a protected life under house arrest. Eventually, one is grateful for the smallest outing outdoors -- a lovely picnic in a burqa, being allowed to watch the men and boys fly kites or swim.

Go gently into the day. Honor your idealism, resist cynicism. Keep your heart open to the world, try and make the world better. Don't give up.