Quotes About Resilience

Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.

Grumbling wouldn't get him there any faster, but it vastly improved his mood.

The dwarf stood his ground.

Un nano non lancia mai la sua arma se non ne ha un'altra!

Army? I don't need an army when I've got my ax!

As dwarves, we are committed to wiping out evil wherever it occurs and we shall not tire in our duty.

You've got the makings of a first-class dwarf!

Markus Heitz

There can't only be bad things in life, otherwise the world would cease," said Tungdil. "Enjoy what you have.

She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.

I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.

Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.

Und doch sitzt in mir noch immer eine wahnsinnige Hoffnung. Ich kann nur nachsichtig darüber lächeln. Mit diesem verstockten Eigensinn habe ich als Kind gehofft, nie sterben zu müssen. Ich stelle mir diese Hoffnung als einen blinden Maulwurf vor, der in mir hockt und über seinem Wahn brütet. Da ich ihn nicht aus mir vertreiben kann, muss ich ihn gewähren lassen.

Nach einer Weile fing sie an, sich Vernunft zu predigen. Es war alles geschehen und nicht zu ändern, und im Grunde wünschte sie es gar nicht geändert. Wie immer sie ihr Leben gelebt hätte, heute würde sie auf diesem Stein sitzen, mit dem Verdacht in Herzen, den falschen Weg gegangen zu sein. Das Leben war einfach zu stark, um bewältigt zu werden.

Up to a certain point one can get very used to pain

Up to a certain point one can get very used to pain; as I couldn't make my legs better, I got used to the pain.

Cuando fracasa el primer intento [de rebelión], lo que, generalmente, suele ocurrir, nos rendimos hasta el siguiente, que ya será más debil y que nos volverá todavía más miserables y derrotados.

Ich erinnerte mich an gewisse Tage meiner Kindheit ohne Trauer und Wehmut, ja selbst ohne Sympathie. Das kleine Mädchen von damals war tot, erwürgt und verscharrt von großen geschickten Händen. Es war nicht Schade darum, denn es hatte sich kaum gewehrt, und um Dinge und Menschen, die sich nicht wehren, braucht man nicht zu trauern.

Gauntlets are the stuff of every life, but when you learn, young, how to pick them up, how to work them against the demons, and, finally, how to outlast if not escape those same demons, life can seem more merciful. It's that long, smooth, false swanning through the course of a life that seems to drive a person, sooner or later, into the wall. I never swanned through anything, but I was always grateful for the chance to keep trying to shine up things. Anyway

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

She was a soul-sucking vampire and I was a sixteen-year-old cheerleader, but I was damned if she was going to suck the life out of all my friends. High school was hard enough.

And I will close my eyes and prepare myself so that they can unscrew my head and allow the map to slip into my lacunae. So that I can be filled and braced from the inside and fortified for the voyage. Because without my world inside me I will contract and congeal, more even than I am now, without speech and without actions and without any purchase upon time.