Quotes About Resilience

the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.

We decided that sooner or later you had to learn to live without almost everybody, at least for a while. Even people you didn't think you could live without." p 167 love always found itself again.

being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.

The only thing suffering teaches us is that we are capable of suffering.

What happened to English after the Battle of Ethandune was that it not only endured, it thrived, it grew. Having held steady under fire, it moved forward. The two principal reasons for this were Alfred himself and what seems to me to be the profoundly self-preserving nature of the language which had so slowly and doggedly alchemised into English.

We shall fight on the beaches," said Churchill in 1940, "we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." Only "surrender" is not Old English. That, in itself, might be significant.

Books don't harm kids; they arm them.

We fight, therefore, we are!

The man who runs may fight again.

Being a man, ne'er ask the gods for a life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

No one ought to despond in adverse circumstances, for they may turn out to be the cause of good to us.*

When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil.

and, the highlight, Cristiano Ronaldo weeping on the grass after a knee injury in the 24th minute, while a lone Autographa gamma sips his teardrops away.

I vaig começar a caminar altra vegada, a desfer camí.

If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.

You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.

Sabía que lo esencial en esos casos era vencer la timidez; ser tajante y mostrarse decidida. Antes de llegar hasta allí yo misma me había hecho un lavado de cerebro para mentalizarme. Nada de tener miedo. Pero si el miedo apuntaba, había que considerar que también el miedo es un derivado de la esperanza; una especie de esperanza al revés. Todo era cuestión de enderezarla. (P. 64)

The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.

In the midst of death's relentless power, I yet among the living stand

The world waits for you with all its beauty, but also its frights and its pain.

I write to make peace with the things I cannot control.

I wrote it for insomniacs at three in the morning who were wondering how they'd get through the next day. And I wrote it for my past self, that girl who promised herself she'd write a book someday.

Everything falls apart so you can begin rebuilding yourself and your new reality.