Quotes About Resilience

Bantu Philosophy: People cling to life and are not yet at the stage where they wil fight for the quality of that life. They feel as long as they are surviving, that is enough.

Keep your head down, think small, look after yourself: these constituted the lessons of Leopold. The spirit, once comprehensively crushed, does not recover easily. For seventy-five years, from 1885 to 1960, Congo's population had marinated in humiliation. No malevolent witch-doctor could have devised a better preparation for the coming of a second Great Dictator.

If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

When we find ourselves up against practical obstacles that can't be overcome, we must go forward. You either make the film as you can or don't make it at all.

Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?

In van! Cand vrei sa cazi, nu iei aminte la bratul care vrea sa te ridice.

Cel ce iubirea-si ia drept arma, frange destin si ura, forta si mizerii.

The realities of the lives of many LGBT people, from grappling with HIV to the presence of anti-LGBT violence, are unconsciously covered up as the victory narrative consumes us and as we allow it to happen at our own peril.

victim's avoidance of 'fighting back' and the bully's interpretation of this as a weakness.

It was easy to believe when everything was good. But when bad things happened, doubt sowed its seed in fertile soil and burrowed deep. It was my duty to root it out.

That's the thing with the real world. It's never going to be perfect, and I don't have control over that. But I can control how I behave in it, and how I let things affect me. I can choose to be perfect in my own way without having to be perfect in everyone else's eyes. Relying on other people to reflect my worth back to me is a fool's errand.

Impossible is just another word for 'loser who gives up.

Don't let them make you doubt yourself. All the greatest visionaries in history have been told they were insane at some point.

Little Life Lesson 1: Life is a lot like hair, some mornings you get up and it looks great. Other mornings you can tell it's out to get you.

You should have died

You might think that if you were paralyzed, at least you couldn't feel the pain. But it isn't like that. You can't move, but you can hurt. You can hurt more than you can imagine.

After the sprints, which left my knees feeling like vanilla pudding, Brad let us grab a drink from our water bottles and rest for a minute. Practice wasn't even half over and I already felt ready to quit.

To cope with hurt and control my fears, I grew a thick skin. Oh, the many names of power - pride, arrogance, control. I am not the frozen snow queen but a flesh and blood woman with perhaps too loving a heart, one easily hurt.

the twentieth century was best represented by an unwilling traveler. "I mean, think of the millions of soldiers mobilized by wars. And all the people made homeless because of them. Now the world is full of people who don't belong where they end up and long for the places where they did.

This is going to be a little uncomfortable

I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like cheap mini vacations.

The dreams that were buried the deepest were the hardest to get rid of.

He had seen so much of life, but even more of death. He had seen countless eras come and go and still he braved forward, forever alone. And here she was ready to give up after a few lousy years. She was a coward.

I]n America, wrongs can be righted, warriors can wear skirts and blouses, and the bravest hearts may beat in girls only five feet tall.