Quotes About Resilience

I know people get tired of hearing it but black people have got to keep saying it, throwing our conditions up into these people's faces until something is done about the way they have treated us. We've just got to keep it in front of their eyes and their ears like the Jews have done. We've got to make them know and understand just how evil the things are that they did to us over all these years and are still doing to us today.

My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Oh, help!" said Pooh. "I'd better go back." "Oh, bother!" said Pooh. "I shall have to go on." "I can't do either!" said Pooh. "Oh, help and bother!

Sometimes bygone springs, full of warmth and scent, blossom yet again inside us. And we carry them through the winter, protecting them with our chests. Then, one day, those bygone springs begin protecting our chests from the frost when we find ourselves on the other side of the window, where winter is not just a picture.

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.

Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.

You must embrace failure

The villain still pursued her.

History has failed us, but no matter.

We cannot help but be interested in the stories of people that history pushes aside so thoughtlessly.

All her life, Sunja had heard this sentiment from other women, that they must suffer—suffer as a girl, suffer as a wife, suffer as a mother—die suffering. Go-saeng—the word made her sick.

the pain didn't go away, but its sharp edge had dulled and softened like sea glass.

no matter what, always expect suffering, and just keep working hard.

In life, there was so much insult and injury, and she had no choice but to collect what was hers.

the stories of Koreans in Japan should be told somehow when so much of their lives had been despised, denied, and erased.

And this is something Solomon must understand. We can be deported. We have no motherland. Life is full of things he cannot control so he must adapt. My boy has to survive.

Somewhere after being sorry, there had to be another day, and even after a conviction, there could be good in the judgment.

Living every day in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage

The world was cruel with its rations.

Life is full of things he cannot control so he must adapt.

Life is full of things he cannot control so he must adapt. My boy has to survive.

I try not to cry, because it doesn't seem to make any difference. And whenever I do, I shut my eyes to make it stop.

A woman's lot is to suffer,