Quotes About Resilience

Prevariti se u jednoj velikoj nadi nije sramota. Sama cinjenica da je takva nada mogla da postoji vredi toliko da nije suvise skupo placena jednim razocarenjem, ma kako tesko ono bilo.

To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged to swim, to exist; to have an identity; to resist the pressure and shocks from the outside and the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts - one's own and those of others - which so often exceed one's capacities? And what is more, to endure one's own thoughts about all this: in a word, to be human.

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them

When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.

Lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt.

Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.

When the netted fence of spiderwebs that darkens my ruined house can hold the wind in its strands- that's when these troubled thoughts will blow away. . . .

A turtle with no legs tends not to go anywhere.

The person who is impatient with weakness will be ineffective in his leadership.

Often we think of patience in passive terms, as if the patient person is utterly submissive and half asleep.

Paul admitted to knowing fear, but it never stopped him. "I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling," he reported in 1 Corinthians 2:3, but the verb is came. He did not stay home out of fear for the journey.

Your best is whatever you can do comfortably without having a breakdown.

The messianic hope was never the hope of the victors and the rulers. It was always the hope of the defeated and the ground down.31 The hope of the poor is nothing other than the messianic hope.

One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.

Don't ever let the negative experiences from your past deny you from the positive experiences of your future.

Sometimes life's Hell. But hey! Whatever gets the marshmallows toasty.

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.

Hoe voel je je?' 'Als een schip,' zeg ik, 'een schip, een zeilschip dat in een windstilte is terechtgekomen. En dan plotseling is er even weer wat wind vaar ik weer. Dan heeft de wereld weer vat op me en kan ik weer meebewegen.

Een mens is te klein voor dit leven.

Or perhaps the syndrome we are witnessing is preemptive capitulation: If we reduce our conscience to rubble before the bad men get here, they will have nothing to destroy.