Quotes About Resilience

During the day she carried her boy, bandaged and fed the wounded, leaving her own festering wounds until night-time when she licked them and nursed them, and remembered the pines and the fish and the river and the ase and the woods and the fire and the blueberries and the smell of cigarette smoke and the loud laughter coming from one male throat.

We're moving cities, we're changing our name just like this hotel. You call that all right?" "Yes," she said. "We still have each other. We still have our lives." "How the definition of being all right changes," said Alexander.

How do you manage?" she asked in a low voice. "How do you manage to carry your weapon, to stand guard, to go and fight, to be strong for all of us?" "I give you," said Alexander, glancing at her, "what you need most from me.

Hold your head high, and if you're going to go down, go down knowing you have not in any way compromised your soul.

En el tapiz de la existencia de Alexander había un único hilo que no podría romperse con la muerte, el dolor, la distancia, el tiempo, la guerra o el comunismo. «No hay nada capaz de romperlo —susurró Tatiana. Y con su aliento, su cuerpo y sus labios, añadió—: Mientras yo esté en el mundo, mientras respire, tú perdurarás, soldado.»

You're to need a lot more strength when you hear what I'm about to you

Everyone feels that way, that we will never stop loving someone, that we will never love anyone else, that we can never feel more than we do right now, but yet... we do, somehow, stop loving. We do get over it. Don't we? We have to. We must. Otherwise, how could we go on?

The struggle doesn't end just because you know the way. That's when it's only beginning.

Non temerai i terrori della notte, né la freccia che vola di giorno, la peste che vaga nelle tenebre, lo sterminio che devasta mezzogiorno. Mille cadranno al tuo fianco, diecimila alla tua destra; ma nulla ti potrà colpire.

Èšine-È›i mereu capul sus,iar dac? vei fi nevoit? s? È›i-l apleci, încearc? s? o faci f?r? s?-È›i compromiÈ›i sufletul!

Ti dicono lui è mio e tu dici va bene, va bene, è tuo, certo, prendilo, niente è importante per me. Né me stessa, né il mio pane, né la mia vita, e neanche lui. Io combatto per niente.

Luchando contra molinos de viento

How's Jen ever going to handle anything if she cannot handle something even this minor? Jen had always suspected there would come a time when she would be called upon to deal and wouldn't be able to. No, I told her, don't be absurd. Don't be silly. Everything that happens only makes you stronger. Remember what Tolstoy said? "All that doesn't kill you makes you stronger." But yet, here she is, weaker than ever, and I cannot find the right words.

God on high, hear my prayer. Don't give me an easier life. [...] Make me a stronger man.

Dopo Coconut Grove scoprirono finalmente cosa preferivano, quello di cui avevano più bisogno: semplicemente di loro tre, in una trinità malconcia ma intatta.

Non tremerò né indietreggerò, non abbasserò la testa. Troverò il modo di alzare gli occhi, di non lasciare entrare niente. Eccetto te, Alexander.

La lucha no termina sólo porque ya conozcas el camino. Eso es sólo el principio.

Tatiana le pidió a Dimitri que se marchara y después subió a la azotea, donde rogó para que le cayera una bomba. Vio

She wasn't afraid of random war. It was like being struck by lightning, even if the lightning did strike a thousand times a day. No, it wasn't war that terrified Tatiana. It was the resolute chaos of her broken heart.

Aunque mucho perdimos, mucho queda. Y aunque ya no tenemos aquel vigor capaz de mover los cielos y la tierra, seguimos siendo lo que somos... Indoblegables.

Alexander, you broke my heart. But for carrying me on your back, for pulling my dying sled, for giving me your last bread, for the body you destroyed for me, for the son you have given me, for the twenty-nine days we lived like Red Birds of Paradise, for all our Naples sands and Napa wines, for all the days you have been my first and last breath, for Orbeli- I will forgive you.

You will find a way to live without me. You will find a way to live for both of us,' Alexander said to Tatiana as the swelling Kama River flowed from the Ural Mountains through a pine village named Lazarevo, once when they were in love, and young.

There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.