Quotes About Resilience

when the fortress of the body is besieged on all sides the mind must at length succumb.

I did not believe what he was saying, but I bore him no ill-will for that, for I had inherited from my mother and grandmother their incapacity for resentment even of far worse offenders, and their habit of never condemning anyone

The hope of being relieved gives him the courage to suffer.

Los hechos no penetran en el mundo donde viven nuestras creencias, y como no les dieron vida no las pueden matar; pueden estar desmintiéndolas constantemente sin debilitarlas, y un alud de desgracia o enfermedades que una tras otra padece una familia, no le hace dudar de la bondad de su Dios ni de la pericia de su médico.

one can grow so well accustomed as to smile at them, to take the tormentor's side with a. happy determination which deludes one into the belief that it is not, really, tormenting;

This calm which I had just enjoyed was the first apparition of that great intermittent force which was to wage war in me against grief, against love, and would ultimately get the better of them.

M. Verdurin replied in a hasty tone and with an embittered groan, not of grief but of irritated impatience: "Why yes, of course, but what's to be done about it, it's no use crying over spilt milk, talking about him won't bring him back to life, will it?

It is necessary to adapt oneself to the enemy's latest formula so as to defend oneself against him; then he starts a fresh innovation and yet, as in other human things, the old tricks always come off.

Curaram-no. Mas logo que deixou de ser louco, tornou-se idiota. Há males de que não se deve buscar a cura porque só eles nos protegem contra males mais graves.

D??ar?dan dayat?lan manevi bir darbenin uzant?s? olan ac? ?ekil de?i?tirmek ister; planlar yap?p bilgi toplamaya çal??arak onu buharla?t?raca??m?z? umut ederiz; say?s?z ba?kala??m evresinden geçmesini dileriz, çünkü bu, ac?y? oldu?u gibi korumak kadar cesaret gerektirmez; ac?m?zla birlikte uzand???m?z yatak bize darac?k, sert, so?uk gelir.

Con le donne che non ci amano, come con i "dispersi", sapere di non avere più nulla da sperare non ci impedisce di continuare ad attendere.

On ne guérit d'une souffrance qu'à condition de l'éprouver pleinement.

But, for one thing, however fiercely the Dreyfus cyclone was raging, it is not at the onset of a storm that the waves are at their most violent.

Umutsuzlu?a kap?lmak için, art?k ancak bedbaht olabilecek bu hayata ba?l? olmam?z gerekir.

for the people who decline to give you the things you desire give you other things.

I must have suffered intensely during this period, but I realise that it was inevitable. We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

I tried to speak to Mamma but my voice broke, and, bursting into tears, I stayed for a long time, my head on her shoulder, crying, tasting, accepting, relishing my grief, now that I knew that it had departed from my life, as we like to exalt ourselves by forming virtuous plans which circumstances do not permit us to put into execution.

Strange how it is that men never act crueler than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing since Cain over who stands closer to god. It seems to me that cruelty is just in the way of things. You drive yourself mad if you take it all personal. Those who hurt you don't have the power over you they would like. That's why they do what they do.

We don't get much of a spring or fall to speak of. Up here, for ten months a year, the weather has teeth in it.

En la ausencia de Dios, no nos queda otra cosa que vivir el doble, como robándole bocanadas a la muerte. Asentí.

Hace unos días encontré, entremedio de sus papeles, el discurso que dio el arquitecto Renzo Piancuando cuandofue galardonado con el Pritzker. Natasha había subrayado la siguiente frase: «Ã¢â'¬Â¦ y asi seguimos remando contra la corriente empujados sin pausa hacia el pasado. Es una imagen maravillosa, que representa la condición humana. El pasado es un refugio seguro, una tentación constante y, sin embargo, el futuro es el único sitio donde podemos ir».

No me dejará sin fumar, es para lo único que me queda voluntad.

Mucho de lo suyo pudo desmoronarse, menos las cosas que le dieron identidad.

La historia se ha escrito al margen de nosotras, pero nosotras mismas la hemos moldeado desde atrás.