Quotes About Resilience

For a few hours we can be unhappy in the manner of free men.

Come Rumkowski, anche noi siamo così abbagliati dal potere e dal prestigio da dimenticare la nostra fragilità essenziale: col potere veniamo a patti, volentieri o no, dimenticando che nel ghetto siamo tutti, che il ghetto è cintato, che fuori del recinto stanno i signori della morte, e che poco lontano aspetta il treno.

We are invincible because we are the conquered, Invulnerable because already dead; We laugh at your missiles. Sit down and bargain Until your tongues are dry. If the havoc and the shame continue We'll drown you in our putrefaction.

Car la nature humaine est ainsi faite, que les peines et les souffrances éprouvées simultanément ne s'additionnent pas totalement dans notre sensibilité, mais se dissimulent les unes derrière les autres par ordre de grandeur décroissante selon les lois bien connues de la perspective.

Le grane, tu lo saprai, non vengono al galoppo, come gli Unni, ma zitte, di soppiatto, come le epidemie.

Sbagliare non era più un infortunio vagamente comico, che ti guasta un esame o ti abbassa il voto: sbagliare era come quando si va su roccia, un misurarsi, un accorgersi, uno scalino in su, che ti rende più valente e più adatto.

La libertà, l'improbabile, impossibile libertà, così lontana da Auschwitz che solo nei sogni osavamo sperarla, era giunta[...]. Era intorno a noi, ma sotto forma di una spietata pianura deserta. Ci aspettavano altre prove, altre fatiche, altre fami, altri geli, altre paure.

Solo i sobbalzi del vagone ci impedivano di scivolare in un sonno che il freddo avrebbe reso mortale.

Hier, vorübergehend fern von Flüchen und von Schlägen, haben wir die Möglichkeit, wieder zu uns selbst zu finden und nachzudenken, und da wird uns klar, dass wir nie zurückkehren werden. (...) Wir werden nicht zurückkehren. Von hier darf keiner fort, denn er könnte mit dem ins Fleisch geprägten Mal auch die böse Kunde in die Welt tragen, was in Auschwitz Menschen aus Menschen zu machen gewagt haben.

Piu' giu di cosi' non si puo' andare: condizione umana piu' misera non c'e', e non e' pensabile. Nulla piu' e' nostro: ci hanno tolto gli abiti, le scarpe, anche i capelli; se parleremo non ci ascolteranno, se ci ascoltassero non ci capirebbero. Ci toglieranno anche il nome: e se vorremmo conservarlo, dovremmo trovare in noi la forza di farlo, di fare si' che dietro al nome, qualcosa ancora di noi, di quelli che eravamo, rimanga.

Riferito ai Muselmänner] Essi popolano la mia memoria della loro presenza senza volte, e se potessi racchiudere in un'immagine tutto il male del nostro tempo, sceglierei questa immagine, che mi è familiare: un uomo scarno, dalla fronte china e dalle spalle curve, sul cui volto o nei cui occhi non si posso leggere traccia di pensiero. Se i sommersi non hanno storia, e una sola e ampia è la via della perdizione, le vie della salvazione sono invece molte, aspre ed impensate.

Cerrato said seriously that indeed sometimes things went like that, and that he would try to come up with something; but in general it was really dark all the time. You couldn't see the glimmer, you beat your head again and again against an ever lower ceiling, and ended by coming out of the cave on your hands and knees and backward, a little older than when you went in.

The tunes are few, a dozen, the same ones every day, morning and evening : marches to popular songs dear to every German. They lie engraved on our minds and will be the last thing in Lager that we shall forget : they are the voice of the Lager, the perceptible expression of its geometrical madness, of the resolution of others to annihilate us first as men in order to kill us more slowly afterwards.

Sometimes, she had discovered, you had to walk around the holes in your life, instead of falling into them.

My dad says stop thinking that way. "You be lookin' backward all the time, Brady, you're gonna have one heck of a crook in the neck." He smiles when he says that. But I know what he means deep down, and it's not funny. You can't keep dwelling on the past when you can't undo it. You can't make it happen any different than it did.

The thing was, if you wanted to survive you had to keep going. Even when it hurt. Sometimes, she had discovered, you had to walk around the holes in your life, instead of falling into them.

Priscilla Cummings

The enemy) laughs at your attempts to fix your own issues with timely words and hard work - tactics that might affect matters for a moment but can't begin to touch his underhanded, cunning efforts down where the root issues lie.

It was a kind face, and yet it was strong and fearless too.

Strategy 4—Against Your Family He wants to disintegrate your family, dividing your home, rendering it chaotic, restless, and unfruitful (Gen. 3:1–7).

Strategy 5—Against Your Confidence He constantly reminds you of your past mistakes and bad choices, hoping to convince you that you're under God's judgment rather than under the blood (Rev. 12:10).

The storm raged all around him, but he couldn't feel it.

The fight of your life. A very real enemy has been strategizing and scheming against you, assaulting you, coming after your emotions, your mind, your man, your child, your future. In fact, he's doing it right this second. Right where you're sitting. Right where you are. But I say his reign of terror stops here. Stops now. He might keep coming, but he won't have victory anymore. Because it all starts failing when we start praying.

Fighting the low-level cloud cover that's blocking out what you're wanting to see break through into your life.