Quotes About Resilience

Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.

I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood is a very, very tricky business of surviving it. Because if one thing goes wrong or anything goes wrong, and usually something goes wrong, then you are compromised as a human being. You're going to trip over that for a good part of your life.

But you know, as I do, that the storm will pass And that the implacable sun doesn't simply stop When obscured by a dark, pernicious cloud, Which is why I know I'll return to your house- On a Sunday that's there on the calendar- And laugh with you over a glass of grappa.

Cuando uno cuenta los naufragios es porque no se ahogó.

Reírse un poquito del dolor hace al dolor un poco más pequeño.

la primera ley exigible de la poesía: enseñar la virtud, la indulgencia y el amor al prójimo, además de servir, en caso de ataque, de arma arrojadiza.

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

Everyone's broken, one way or another.

Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.

Life is a muddle. It seems a brilliant muddle, if you are an optimist; a dull one, if you aren't; but in neither case can you deny that it is the muddlers who keep it going.

When in doubt, head into the wind.

awakened her.

If it doesn't make callouses on a girl's hands it will make them on her heart. I've been waiting all my life for a chance, and the chance has never come." Something flared in her.

if a man ain't got the heart inside, it don't make no difference how big around the chest he measures.

he had avoided the full brunt of danger and still retained his dignity. And

He softened his voice. "Gaspar," he said, "keep your head up. Make up your mind that you'll fight to the last gasp. Why, it makes me plumb sick to see a grown man give up like you do!

When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.

They didn't break me. I broke myself.

They say great times make great men. I don't buy it. I saw a lot of weakness, a lot of filth. People who should have risen to the challenge and either couldn't or wouldn't. Greed, fear, stupidity and hate. I saw it before the war, I see it today. [...] I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

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Nem mindig hittem hogy er? fakadhat egy összetört szívb?l, vagy az isteni ösvény meglátható a tragédiában. De most már hiszem.

I don't come with the wheelchair. The wheelchair comes with me.

Max E. Anders