Quotes About Resilience
and a person who worries over something he can do nothing about is an extraordinary fool.
~ Unknown
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Hope is the last thing ever lost.
~ Italian proverb
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Since the house is on fire, let us warm ourselves.
~ Italian proverb
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seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space
~ Italo Calvino
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Cercare e saper riconoscere chi e cosa, in mezzo all'inferno, non è inferno, e farlo durare, e dargli spazio.
~ Italo Calvino
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onsuz yapamayaca??n bir ?eyi kenara b?rakmay? bir kez ba?ard???nda, bir ba?ka ?ey olmadan da yapabildi?ini, sonra bir ba?ka ?eyden de s?yr?labildi?ini göreceksin.
~ Italo Calvino
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One gets used to persisting in one's habits, to finding oneself isolated for good reasons, to putting up with the discomfort that this causes, to finding the right way to hold on to positions which are not shared by the majority.
~ Italo Calvino
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Cosa li spinge a questa vita, cosa li spinge a combattere, dimmi? [...] E' l'offesa della loro vita, il buio della loro strada, il suicidio della loro casa, le parole oscene imparate fin da bambini, la fatica di dover essere cativi. E basta un nulla, un passo falso, un impennamento dell'anima e ci si ritrova dall'altra parte, come Pelle, dalla brigata nera, a sparare con lo stesso furore, con lo stesso odio, contro gli uni o contro gli altri, fa lo stesso.
~ Italo Calvino
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Nuestro padre se asomó al antepecho. —¡Cuando te canses de estar ahí ya cambiarás de idea! —le gritó. —Nunca cambiaré de idea —dijo mi hermano desde la rama. —¡Ya verás, en cuanto bajes! —¡No bajaré nunca más! Y mantuvo su palabra.
~ Italo Calvino
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The past is like a tapeworm, constantly growing, which I carry curled up inside me, and it never loses its rings no matter how hard I try to empty my guts in every WC, English-style or Turkish, or in the slop jars of prison or the bedpans of hospitals or the latrines of camps, or simply in the bushes, taking a good look first to make sure no snake will pop out, like that time in Venezuela.
~ Italo Calvino
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Are you depressed or euphoric? The house, in its wisdom, seems to have taken advantage of your moments of euphoria to prepare itself to shelter you in your moments of depression.
~ Italo Calvino
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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continent.
~ Italo Calvino
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You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.
~ Italo Calvino
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Ci sono quelli che si condannano al grigiore della vita più mediocre perché hanno avuto un dolore, una sfortuna; ma ci sono anche quelli che lo fanno perché hanno avuto più fortuna di quella che si sentivano di reggere.
~ Italo Calvino
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With the revolution, there are people who change so much they become unrecognizable, and other people who feel they are the same selves as before. It must be a sign that they were prepared in advance for the new times.
~ Italo Calvino
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A distanza di tanti anni, devo dire che questo spirito, che permise ai partigiani di fare le cose meravigliose che fecero, resta ancor oggi, per muoversi nella contrastata realtà del mondo, un atteggiamento umano senza
~ Italo Calvino
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Déblayer la neige n'est pas un jeu d'enfant, surtout quand on a l'estomac presque vide, mais pour Marcovaldo, la neige était comme une amie, comme un élément qui annulait les murs qui emprisonnaient sa vie.
~ Italo Calvino
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Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.
~ Italo Calvino
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Avete paura che le nostre anime caschino in mano al Diavolo? Avrebbero chiesto quelli della città -No: che non abbiate anima da dargli.
~ Italo Calvino
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His trouble was not madness, perhaps only desperation…
~ Italo Calvino
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Insomma, l'amore per questo suo elemento arboreo seppe farlo diventare, com'è di tutti gli amori veri, anche spietato e doloroso, che ferisce e recide per far ricrescere e dar forma.
~ Italo Calvino
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The obstinacy on which power is based is never so fragile as in the moment of its triumph.
~ Italo Calvino
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For awhile now, everything has been going wrong for me; it seems to me that in the world there now exists only stories that remain suspended or get lost along the way.
~ Italo Calvino
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Amid all the extraordinary events you were witness to in your lifetime, the most extraordinary was that everything went on, not that everything was collapsing?
~ Italo Calvino
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