Quotes About Resilience

Beware of lazily giving up. Instead, put up a glorious fight and you will find yourself empowered with His strength.

There will be experiences like this in each of our lives. We will have times of despair caused by real events in our lives, and we will be unable to lift ourselves out of them.

There are stages in life when there is no storm, no crisis, when we do our human best; it is when a crisis arises that we instantly reveal upon whom we rely. If we have been learning to worship God and to trust Him, the crisis will reveal that we will go to the breaking point and not break in our confidence in Him.

Temptation is not something we can escape; in fact, it is essential to the well-rounded life of a person. Beware of thinking that you are tempted as no one else—what you go through is the common inheritance of the human race, not something that no one has ever before endured. God does not save us from temptations—He sustains us in the midst of them

The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.

El ser se extingue cuando se extingue la voluntad de lucha

Hemos nacido en este tiempo y debemos recorrer el camino hasta el final. No hay otro. Es nuestro deber permanecer sin esperanza de salvación en el puesto ya perdido. Permanecer como aquel soldado romano cuyo esqueleto se ha encontrado delante de una puerta en Pompeya que murió porque al estallar la erupción del Vesubio nadie se acordó de licenciarlo. Eso es grandeza. Eso es tener raza. Ese honroso final es lo único que no se le puede quitar al hombre

Kdo m?že dát jednou za rok pr?chod hn?vu," ?ekl Krabat, ten pak vydrží vše, co se mu nap?esrok naloží na h?bet - a toho není ve mlýn? na Blatech, jak budeš mít možnost poznat, práv? málo.

Was denkt Er sich, Lausekerl? Will Er mit Seinem Altweibergebiss Soldat werden? Scher Er sich weg da, Er Zahnkrüppel, sonst vergess ich mich!

It's no use fretting for what you can't get," croaked the raven. "Does being angry make any difference?Be sensible! What can you do about it?

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

short, I am suggesting that the superego aspects of a psychoanalytic identity are reflected not only in moral integrity (in a moral as opposed to a moralistic stance vis-a-vis the patient) but also in resilience to the corruptive or regressive pressures operating upon the superego within the social and cultural system. I now turn

combat boots and helmets. The breeze rose and he walked crabwise, trying to give

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Hence, being thus suited to the Age which had begotten her, being thus its creature and its likeness, she bad thriven in it as the snake thrives in hot and poisonous waters which for all purer and healthier things breed death.

Sad? Oh, I don't see that; nothing in life is worth calling sad. According to Heraclitus, everything is sad; according to Democritus, nothing is sad. The true secret is to take things as they come, and not trouble yourself sufficiently about anything to give it power to trouble you.

Will you take me home with you ?" I ventured to ask, emboldened by his honest kind eyes. "I have no home," ho said mournfully, "otherwise I would. I sleep under bridge-arches, or doorways, or anywhere I can; where I am not hunted away" "But that must be very miserable?" "Yes, it is miserable. But there are tens of thousands of human creatures that do*the same. I must not complain.

Bravo!" said Curly, as five minutes afterwards we passed out from the great hall door. "You are a brick, De Vigne, and no mistake. How splendidly you pitched into that rascally keeper!" De Vigne laughed. "It was a good bit of fun. Always stand up for your rights, my boy; if you don't, who will? I never was done yet in my life, and never intend to be.

Once again alone, my grief was unrestrained; so much so that the woman of the house came and hammered at the door and swore at me for a "dratted yelping beast," which only made my cries the louder. As several hours went on, however, and my solitude remained unbroken, I cried myself so hoarse that I was unable to emit any sort of sound at last; and thought I might as well vary my imprisonment by looking out of the casement.

A little farther on, in the old playing-field, there were the wickets, and the bats, and the jumping poles, and four or five boys, in their shirt sleeves and their straw hats, enjoying their half-holiday, as we had done before them. So life goes on; when one is bowled out, another is ready to step into his shoes, and, no matter how many the ball of death may knock over, the cricket of life is kept up the same, and players are never wanting!

When he had once determined on a thing he never looked back; sometimes it had been better for him if he had. Yet, in the long run, I have known more mischief done by indecision of character than anything else in the world, and he is safe to be the strongest and stoutest-hearted who never looks back, whether he has determined on quitting Sodom or on staying in it The evil lies in hasty judgment, not in prompt action.

even though I may think like a compulsive overeater, I don't have to act like one.

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.