Quotes About Resilience

Ontem um velhinho de oitenta e dois anos atravessou o Canal da Mancha, vupt! vupt! nadando. A múmia chegou inteira e ainda pediu um conhaque.

Lembro da ampulheta quebrada, entrei no escritório do pai para pegar o lápis vermelho e esbarrei no vidro do tempo. Fiquei em pânico vendo o tempo estacionado no chão: dois punhados de areia e os cacos. Passado e futuro. E eu? Onde ficava eu agora que o era e o será se despedaçaram? Só o funil da ampulheta resistira e no funil, o grão de areia em trânsito sem se comprometer com os extremos. Livre.

Um dia qualquer, no meio de um pensamento, de uma palavra, você descobrirá de repente esta coisa extraordinária: cresci! O que não vai impedir que o caso ou Deus, dê a isto o nome que quiser, de vez em quando a governe como uma casca de noz no meio do mar. Mas reagirá de modo diferente, está compreendendo?

This reminds me of the old saying about a guy who owned four farms. He lost three of them drawing to inside straights and lost the fourth one when he made it.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oak.

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colours to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish.

Every soul is a battlefield.

He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it.

Love is like iron– strong and unyielding.

Life asks for a preparation as complete as we can afford; the great contest should be fought with spirit but with good temper always; we should never think the game lost while it is still going; and finally we should have the satisfaction of quitting the field able to say: I did my best.

Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.

If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.

This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.

Persistance is the quality of winners. Successful people never never give up

Those that came before you did not have to think so consciously about actively navigating their lives through so many distinct changes, or indeed developing their capacity for transition. Long

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this. From what people have told me about her, she'd have given you hell!' 'Yes, she would.' He managed

He sighed forlornly and lifted

It was her religion to make the best of everything.

The impact of rejection for a novice can be incalculable. It's common for the rejected never to try again, particularly women on their own or housewives or provincials who venture without support.

So I keep bringing these — / Just as Night keeps fetching stars

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Victory is no longer a truth. It is only a word to describe who is left alive in the ruins

As long as you are black, and you're gonna be black till the day you die, no one's gonna call you by your goddamn name. So no matter what you are called, nigger, you just let it roll off your back like water, and you'll make it. Just pretend you're a goddamn piece of furniture. [Said to his chauffeur, Robert Parker, when Parker said he'd prefer to be referred to by his name rather than "boy," "nigger" or "chief."]