Quotes About Resilience

If we are not strong, our offers of help are minimally useful.

You have a responsibility to see that your wounded selves do not get in the way of your warrior selves.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Un foie, deux reins, trois raisons d'utiliser la baïonnette.

Nous avons aussi appris que la plus grande mutilation que l'on puisse faire à l'homme, c'est de le priver de toute insécurité. L'insécurité nous a forcés à tirer de nous-mêmes des richesses que nous ne soupçonnions pas : imagination, créativité, résistance physique et psychique, victoire sur les privations de toutes sortes, les inconforts. (p.231)

The trees are extremely alive . . .

Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of God. You who batter us and then dress our wounds, you who resist us and yield to us, you who wreck and build, you who shackle and liberate, the sap of our souls, the hand of God, the flesh of Christ: it is you, matter, that I bless.

Yes, I'm always hungry after a fatal injury. --Jordan

Grief is not necessarily any prettier than death, and the grief-stricken do not wander like lambs grateful for the shepherd's guidance. They can be more like wounded wolves, snapping at those who would help them.

A man is only the man he seems to be. Inside, where no one sees, he may be a mass of gnawing worms of doubt and ire and grief. ... No challenge is easy. The measure of the challenge a man rises to at need is the measure of the man.

One is never so strong as when one is broken.

Ânito e Meleto podem matar-me, mas não me podem fazer mal. Platão, Apologia de Sócrates (30 C-D)

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Courage is a kind of salvation. Courage is knowing what not to fear.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

the champion of justice [...] would be as a man who has fallen among wild beasts, unwilling to share their misdeeds, and unable to hold out singly against the savagery of all.

When a man is out of his depth, whether he has fallen into a little swimming-bath or into mid-ocean, he has to swim all the same.

As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.

harmony that would fittingly imitate the utterances and accents of a brave man who is engaged in warfare or in any enforced business, and who, when he has failed […] confronts fortune with steadfast endurance and repels her strokes

Berbaik hatilah, karena semua orang yang kau temui sedang berjuang dalam pertempuran yang lebih sulit.