Quotes About Resilience

Adapting to the modern world demands the hardening of one's sensibility and the debasing of one's character.

Quienes gimen sobre la estrechez del medio en que viven pretenden que los acontecimientos, los vecinos, los paisajes, les den la sensibilidad y la inteligencia que la naturaleza les negó.

Humanity is not cured of its diseases except by means of catastrophes that decimate it. Man has never known how to renounce at the right time.

They have buried metaphysics so many times that it must be considered immortal.

Someone who has been defeated should not console himself with the possible retaliations of history, but with the patent excellence of his cause.

Hâtez-vous lentement, sans perdre courage. Vingt fois sur le métier, remettez votre ouvrage. Polissez-le sans cesse et le repolissez. Ajoutez quelquefois et souvent effacez.

Beyond a certain degree of hardship or misery, life often revives and heals the scars. As time passed, deportation [to the concentration camps for the young woman] had become a kind of voyage and even, thanks to the almost terrifying capacity of memory to transform horror into courage, a voyage that she could easily mention. Any way of seeing the world is good, as long as one returns.

Stubbornness equals character roughly as lust equals love.

And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead.

In order not to find life unbearable, you must accept two things: the ravages of time and the injustices of man.

He who leaves the game wins it.

Il y a pas une grande sagesse a dire un mot de reproche ; mais il y a une plus grande sagesse a dire un mot qui, sans se moquer du malheur de l'homme, le ranime, lui rende du courage, comme les éperons rendent du courage à un cheval que l'abreuvoir a rafraîchi.

La volonté est ce qui lâche en dernier, bien après le cœur.

To write, for a lesbian, is to learn to take down the patriarchal posters in her room. It means learning to live with bare walls for a while. It means learning how not to be afraid of the ghosts which assume the color of the bare wall.

Keep to Beauty. Have no fear. Learn to bear the unbearable. The raw of all things.

History choked me History took hold of my throat

If you are wronged and do nothing but sulk about it, you wrong yourself even further.

Even as I worried, I admired her strength and unwillingness to give in to the virus in her blood. "I'm fighting to show that I can still succeed," she told me once. "An HIV-positive person is not a disable person. I still have my dreams.

I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

Life has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.

Whatever you do in life, don't give up on your own dreams.

Breathe and don't try to be perfect.