Quotes About Resilience

But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.

That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.

Either we die here in the snow or we die fighting. I prefer the hard way.

I'm going to go home and walk my dog and hug my wife, and maybe get a good Mexican meal and a stiff margarita and a full night's sleep, ... And then I'm going to go right back to FEMA and continue to do all I can to help these victims.

She says that Our Lord told her, "if you want to be like Me, then take up your cross with love and joy.

About the main character approaching death in old age, observed by her husband . . .] He saw that she had already laid down a large portion of her life long ago. Piece by piece she had given it away as she wrestled with existence, as her self was absorbed as nourishment into his life and the life of the children and the community. And laid down most piercingly, as she abandoned, one by one, the shapes of the dreams she had planned. Only to take them up again in other forms.

The only indestructible palace is in the heart.

She knew many survivors of the Holocaust. She said that for some, their experience destroyed their faith in a good God. Others believed more deeply than ever.

He came to love adversity as an unsentimental but beloved teacher.

Koliko dugo duša može biti kušana? Koliko dugo može izdržati? ?ovjek sam mira,ali duboko u mojoj duši drijema ubojica,koji u trenutku ludosti može zgrabiti oru?e zla u nastojanju da porazi zlo. Tako bih bio dvostruko poražen!

Joy and sorrow—and especially the areas of your life where there is weakness?

I carry you always. You must trust in Me especially during times of desolation.

Do you see these wounds? These bruises?" "Yes." "They are my joy." "Pain is your joy?" "The pain in itself is not joy. It is simply pain. But the meaning of the pain, that is joy.

Stari je asfalt bio grbav, utrt, posut šljunkom i izbrazdan i sav ispucao od vru?ine. Vožnja po njoj bila je vrlo neugodna. "Tata!" požalio sam se glasno. "Tata, cesta je slomljena!" Nasmijao se i rekao: "Si, ali mi nismo slomljeni.

Michael D. O'Brien

tell you, your heart will be fully broken, and then only will you find your true heart.

garden. I have been defeated,

You mean, how have we kept together all these years? With so much to separate us?" "Yes. How did you?" "Well, it wasn't always serene. But many questions do resolve themselves without words. You stand side by side for so long and have other things to fight than each other." Yes, she loved the man, her husband. But still did not know him. At least not with the knowledge of the laboratory. It was an inner kind of knowing maybe, an underdeveloped sense.

God, sir,' John couldn't help but add, 'after all we've been through since 2020, it's miraculous that people even dare to wake up every day!

you can decide to learn and adapt, or you can become brittle and fail.

Building "ambidextrous" organizations that can do both of these well is a challenge. See Michael L. Tushman and Charles O'Reilly III, Winning Through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal, rev. ed. (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2002).

If you have inherited a disaster—the classic burning platform—you may be creating value from the moment your appointment is announced.

But if you dig yourself into a hole early on, you will face an uphill battle from that point forward.

preparing yourself means letting go of the past and embracing the imperatives of the new situation to give yourself a running start.