Quotes About Resilience

SHORT FORM OF THE SERENITY PRAYER—FUCK IT.

A life was a long struggle to come to terms with things and to keep some things from others.

I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.

No eches de menos un destino más fácil

Pressure is a great motivator

Em comparação com o que a mulher, historicamente, sofreu num mundo dominado por homens e seus terrores, o que ela sofre com a Natureza é pinto. Com trocadilhos".

Y a mí, ya que prefiero escoger mis derrotas, quiero que me recuerdes derrotado, como quien algo espera más allá de los tiempos y los hechos

La felicidad cabe en tres principios, a cuál más simple: vivir en el presente, valerte solo de ti mismo para ser feliz y permanecer impasible ante la adversidad.

Tengo muchos años... soy una torre en ruinas, habitada por murciélagos y lechuzas. A esta edad, y aun mucho antes, el destino se hace portátil y uno carga con él como con un ingenio ortopédico.

Santa Paciencia Nati, la que hay que tener cuando se te vienen estas ideas.

Las debilidades son lo único bueno que tenemos. Es aburrido ser fuerte, y muy agradable flaquear a solas... y entre dos

Each second is a raw drop of blood from your brain that you must swallow drop by drop and don't even start counting or you'll lose your mind...

que a uno le pasan las cosas que le tienen que pasar

You know quite well that suffering can't be driven from the world by violence. Nor can it be wiped out by bread, work, and welfare. You do know that, don't you? You yourself are full of tears that cannot be wiped away.

Você está atormentado por uma coisa que aconteceu quando você tinha doze anos? — Essas são as coisas que realmente nos atormentam. As outras são apenas problemas.

I'm hurling all the little joys against the greater sadness. The sadness is a giant weight. It presses down. Its mean: "What's the point?

Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings.

The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.

I may be empty inside, hollowed and devoured by Oxana, and I may be alone and beyond redemption, but I will not be broken. Fuck them all. I will not be broken.

Ein Verständiger nimmt alles wie es ist, behilft sich damit wie er kann und hält nichts Unvermeidliches für unerträglich.

That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.

Resistance never disappears; it waits in the shadows, sometimes for many years, and then eventually sprouts again. You may have gone through dark times when you felt, "I just can't fight this anymore, I give up," yet you rebound after a while to try again to recover your rights. And one day you will succeed.

On those days when his nasty or rejecting side comes out first thing, tell yourself, "His coldness is his problem, not mine. He's the one who's missing out. I'm not going to let him ruin my day.

The purpose of this book is to equip women with the ability to protect themselves, physically and psychologically, from angry and controlling men.