Quotes About Resilience

Albert Schweitzer, a century or more ago, used another strong image. Jesus, he said, was like a man convinced the wheel of history was going to turn in the opposite direction. He waited for this to happen, but it didn't. Then he threw himself upon the wheel, and it crushed him—but it did indeed start to turn in the other direction.

But the early Christians—who themselves knew only too well that the world had not turned into Utopia overnight and that they still faced suffering, prison, and death—firmly believed that what had happened on the cross was the Messianic victory. That is why they told the story the way they did.

We expect to suffer, but we know already that we are victorious.

Forgiveness isn't weakness. It was and is a great strength.

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

The astonishing thing is not that so many of us went to concentration camps or died there, but that some of us survived. Caution did not help. Only chance could save you.

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

Romanians have a saying, 'Not every dog has a bagel on its tail.' It means that not all streets are paved with gold. When I began my career, I just wanted to do cartwheels.

It does not matter.

Es imposible dominar todos los temores y las pérdidas con antelación. Siempre hay fuentes de desolación que no se toman en consideración porque nadie sabe cuáles serán.

how many times a heart could break before it was shattered into so many minute fragments there was no heart left at all.

En réalité, chacun de tes ennemis est ton remède, ton élixir, ton bienfaiteur, ton vrai ami. Car tu t'enfuis de lui et tu implores Dieu. En revanche, tes amis sont des ennemis. Car, en t'occupant, ils t'éloignent de la présence divine.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars" An ancient Persian proverb

He couldn't say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but he'd learned other ways to speak. Taking the paperweight she'd knocked off her desk out of his pocket, he put it in her hands. "It's fixed. As long as you don't mind more than a few scars.

Our memories make us... even the darkest of them all.

You can run," Dorian said in a neutral tone that did nothing to lessen the intensity of his expression, "but sooner or later, you run out of places to run to.

The longer you live, the more mistakes you make. And the more sorrows you carry.

I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.' 'I won't let you fall.

Some things need to be broken to become stronger.

You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I'll never recover.

Maybe, just maybe, two broken people could manage to create something whole.

There is a dark music in the screams of your enemies." (Raphael)

He was strong. And his heart, it was breaking.

God hates me," she heard him mutter. "Now there are two of them.