Quotes About Resilience

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La única manera de aprender es vivir.

Nimic nu e mai puternic decat o raza de speranta care nu se stinge.

So we need, more than ever, to know how to edit the world, so it can never break us down.

It occurred to me that human beings didn't live beyond a hundred because they simply weren't up for it. Psychologically, I mean.

As Montaigne put it, "He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

Even these bad experiences are serving a purpose, don't you see?

the west. 'Trouble doesn't always have to be caused. It's sometimes already there.

mean, it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness. And that sadness

And the thing you need to realise is this: the game is never over until it is over. It isn't over if there is a single pawn still on the board. If one side is down to a pawn and a king, and the other side has every player, there is still a game.

We are shaped more by our failures than our successes (paraphrase)

So she stopped trying to think about what to write and, in sheer exasperation, just put down the first thing that came to her, the thing that she felt inside her like a defiant silent roar that could overpower any external destruction. The one truth she had, a truth

We don't go into a state of shock when something big and bad happens," she says. "It has to be something big and bad that we do not yet understand.

Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live.

That's what starts to happen, when you know it is possible for you to feel pain you have no control over. You become vulnerable. Because the possibility of pain is where love stems from. And that, for me, was very bad news indeed. Sloping roofs (and other ways to deal with the rain) and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, – William Shakespeare, Hamlet   I couldn't sleep.

Will my life be miraculously free from pain, despair, grief, heartbreak, hardship, loneliness, depression? No. But do want to live? Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes.

how can we live in a mad world without ourselves going mad? News from a nervous planet As I began researching I quickly found some attention

At the bottom of the pit, I always had to force myself to find the beauty, the goodness, the love, however hard it was. It was hard to do. But I had to try. Change doesn't just happen by focusing on the place you want to escape. It happens by focusing on where you want to reach. Boost the good guys, don't just knock the bad guys. Find the hope that is already here and help it grow.

There are a lot of idiots in your species. Lots and lots. You are not one of them. Hold your ground.

People with stamina aren't made any differently to anyone else,' she was saying. 'The only difference is they have a clear goal in mind, and a determination to get there. Stamina is essential to stay focused in a life filled with distraction. It is the ability to stick to a task when your body and mind are at their limit

As well as religion, human history is full of depressing things like colonization, disease, racism, sexism, homophobia, class snobbery, environmental destruction, slavery, totalitarianism, military dictatorships, inventions of things which they had no idea how to handle (the atomic bomb, the Internet, the semicolon), the victimization of clever people, the worshipping of idiotic people, boredom, despair, periodic collapses, and catastrophes within the psychic landscape.

Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live.' 'Sounds hard.

didn't want to die. And she didn't want to live any other life than the one that was hers. The one that could be a messy struggle, but it was her messy struggle. A beautiful messy struggle.

Nimic nu dureaza la nesfarsit. Durerea asta n-o sa tina la nesfarsit. Durerea minte. Ignor-o! Durerea e o datorie pe care o platesti cu timpul.