Quotes About Resilience

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Of course she is! Sunja-ya, a woman's life is endless work and suffering. There is suffering and then more suffering. It's better to expect it, you know.

A woman's life is endless work and suffering. There is suffering and then moer suffering. It's better to expect it, you know.

Yoseb was almost unrecognizable from the boy she had loved from girlhood. He had become this cynical, broken man—something she could never have predicted. So it was only at the restaurant that Kyunghee behaved like herself. Here, she teased Kim like a younger brother and giggled with Sunja while they cooked. Now, even this place would be gone.

But people will always say things. They will always say terrible things, no matter what. It's normal for me. I'm nobody.

always expect suffering, and just keep working hard

History has failed us, but no matter. Kyunghee would be waiting for her at home. -Pachinko

All her life, Suja 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. What else was there besides this? Should she have taught her son to suffer the humiliation that she'd drunk like water? In the end, he has refused to suffer the conditions of his birth. Did mothers fail by not telling their sons that suffering would come.

he assumed that her strict upbringing had much to do with her ability to forbear and endure.

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

Anyway, the clerk was not wrong. 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.

but dirt remained beneath her nails.

She is yet like a diamond on a heap of broken glass.

We rate experiences as good or bad;even when its the latter, we learn from them.Therefore all experiences are good.

What about you, Cutter? What is it you like to do? Somehow I think serving pancakes and writing about funerals is not your life's ambition." "There's nothing wrong with good honest work. And it is hard work living the life you want, especially if people keep interfering, trying to take it from you.

People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you're succeeding. People do not get scared when you're failing. It calms them. But when you're winning, it makes them feel like they're losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should've tried to do something too, but now it's too late. And since they didn't, they want to stop you. You can't let them.

I am the kind of person who, if my feelings are unrequited, can completely detach from someone emotionally if I simply put my mind to it.

IF YOU'RE DEPRESSED, I WILL BE THERE FOR YOU As everyone knows, depressed people are some of the most boring people in the world. I know this because when I was depressed, people fled. Except my best friends. I will be there for you during your horrible break-up, or getting fired from your job, or if you're just having a bad couple of months or year. I will hate it and find you really tedious, but I promise I won't abandon you.

So things were coming together nicely for me to embark on a full-fledged depression. One good thing about New York is that most people function daily while in a low-grade depression.

I'm getting made fun of because I used to be fat? The laws of bullying allow you to be cruel even when the victim had made strides for improvement? This is when I realized that bullies have no code of conduct.

It's weird when you feel your dream slipping away from you. Especially when you have no other dreams.

They say the best revenge is living well. I say it's acid in the face -- who will love them now?

But when you're winning, it makes them feel like they're losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should've tried to do something too, but now it's too late. And since they didn't, they want to stop you. You can't let them.

It wasn't even one of those stoic pimples that goes quietly when you pop it; this one was cystic and painful and had roots that seemed to extend into my brain.