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Quotes About Resilience

When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.
~ Loung Ung
I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal.
~ Loung Ung
I have to go to the toilet," I tell Ma urgently after dinner. "You have to go in the woods." "But where?" "Anywhere you can find. Wait, I'll get you some toilet paper." Ma goes away and comes back with a bunch of paper sheets in her hand. My eyes widen in disbelief, "Ma! It's money. I can't use money!" "Use it, it is of no use to us anymore.
~ Loung Ung
If what we worship fail us, still the fire Burns on, and it is much to have believed.
~ Unknown
Beneath this sod lie the remains Of one who died of growing pains.
~ Unknown
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
~ Unknown
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
~ Unknown
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
~ Unknown
Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
~ Unknown
I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely.
~ Unknown
Ukrainian women did not wait for doors to be open for them to serve in all capacities. They broke the doors down and have proven themselves as combat capable force multipliers. (re: response of Ukrainian women to the 2022 invasion of their country by the Russian Federation)
~ Unknown
se a gente segue assim, para trás ou para a frente, vê que não pode se partir o fio da vida, mesmo que está podre nalgum lado, ele sempre se emenda noutro sítio, cresce, desvia, foge, avança, curva, pára, esconde, aparece... " - from "Luuanda
~ Unknown
Sometimes you have to act a little crazy just to stay sane.
~ Luanne Rice
The patients there were mostly teenaged girls, with the occasional boy. I thought of us all as tigers with thorns in our paws. We were beautiful beasts who'd gotten injured by life, by loss or trauma or shock, and if we could just get the splinters out of our paws, we'd be fine. My thorn was the fact that my mother had left me. Megan
~ Luanne Rice
Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
~ Unknown
Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.
~ Unknown
However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.
~ Unknown
Patience is the art of hoping.
~ Luc de Clapiers
It is easy to hire someone else to do work for us—someone to clean, someone to tend the garden—but no one can take our place along that road that leads to the conquest of our fears, so that we can adapt to the world and find our right place in it.
~ Unknown
Philosophy wants us to get ourselves out of trouble by utilising our own resources,
~ Unknown
If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato.
~ Lucan
The man prepared to die will not be beaten cheaply.
~ Lucan
The real work of startups is about as sexy and fun as a root canal and about as natural as a jolly rancher. Founding
~ Unknown