Quotes About Resilience

When someone you love that much leaves you behind there isn't as much of you left to die when your own time comes.

I loved the terrier quality Stuart had. He thought he was such a tough guy.

What I learned at the end of my first week back at work after the holiday break was how rough at least some of that road would be. Keith Fu, my department chair, dropped by my office. He brought me a latte. I'd just found a fortune cookie in my pocket and I showed it to Keith. It said, I cannot help you. I am only a cookie.

The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.

Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.

Je respire comme une pierre

Quand il est impossible d'écrire un mot, de faire tenir debout une brique sur la mer. De coucher sur la table un copeau d'amour de la langue... Tout commence.

Spiritual combat is as brutal as men's battle!"74

Il faut avoir l'esprit dur et le coeur sensible

I WAS BORN on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pépin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth. The midwife lined a shoebox with dishtowels and put me inside, placing the makeshift incubator between two bricks that had been warmed on the stove.

Léo ferré disait de la mélancolie: « C'est un désespoir qui n'a pas les moyens. »

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

De fapt, am descoperit ?i am ?tiut foarte devreme c? trebuie s? te ba?i tot timpul. Pe toate fronturile vie?ii, pe toate mizele existen?ei, c?ci nimic nu este câ?tigat dinainte, nimic nu este dat, nimic nu e u?or. A?a e via?a, s?racii nu au niciodat? dreptate, se spunea în familie. Nu trebuie s? te la?i p?c?lit, ad?ugau vecinii. Trebuie s? ar??i c? e?ti b?rbat, supralicitau prietenii mei.

Olvidados en las selvas de Chiapas, los templos y las pirámides de Palenque o de Yaxchilán han sobrevivido durante más de mil años a los asaltos de los elementos y de las plantas, en tanto que los de México sucumbieron a la voluntad destructora de los hombres.

Casi nada sabemos [...] del macehualli cuyo trabajo alimentaba a los habitantes de la ciudad [...]. Por ello es necesario mencionarlo [...] tanto más cuanto que después del desastre de 1521, después de la destrucción total de las fuerzas y de las ideas, de las estructuras sociales y de las religiones, sólo él sobrevivió y sobrevive todavía.

Une lutte qui semble perdue, est la plus excitante.

Life's a trip and then you fall.

It was no difficult to protect a citadel that had never been stormed.

I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.

It is that love can make the most terrible things acceptable.

They say fifty lashes will kill a man. So I'll spare you the last one.

Better to face the devil than have him at your back.