Quotes About Resilience

Les victoires et les défaites font grandir et rayonner les gens. — Utau

We must change in order to survive.

no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.

Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It's an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It's a defiant finger in the face of those naysayers who would have you believe your fortunes will never improve.

I'll rise and fall, let me take credit for both.

When something's lost I wanna fight to get it back again

Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.

Endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be a harsh and bitter root in one's life, bearing poisonous and gloomy fruit, destroying other lives. Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

I believe that the normal human heart is born good. That is, it's born sensitive and feeling, eager to be approved and to approve, hungry for simple happiness and the chance to live. It neither wishes to be killed, nor to kill. If through circumstances, it is overcome by evil, it never becomes entirely evil. There remain in it elements of good, however recessive, which continue to hold the possibility of restoration.

But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

Major offenses like this one, as well as minor indignities, or what psychologist Chester Pierce (1995) referred to as micro-aggressions, are so common and pervasive that for many parents, preparing their Black sons for the likelihood of an

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

It was unpleasant, but now its over. The best is to forget... These things happen every day, today it happened to me.

Chavela le respondió: «A veces, pero siempre acabo donde debo». Me tatuaría esa frase en su honor. ¡Cuántas veces la he visto terminar donde debía!

No soy el viejo general que huye, ahora lo sé bien, yo soy el sobreviviente de mí mismo. Es de piedra mi paciencia.

Each of us exists as a castaway in his circumstances, and it is there, whether he wishes or not, that man must struggle to remain afloat.

Que tanto gusto había en quejarse, un filósofo decía, que, a trueco de quejarse, habían las desdichas de buscarse.

Mud covered me from face to feet. I couldn't straighten my body, however much I tried to. But I was alive. I was alive and I could do seventy push-ups in the mud with a freaking bazooka tied to my back.

A man's allowed to make lots of small mistakes, and there's nothing wrong with that. But if the mistakes are big ones and they weigh him down, his only solution is to stop taking himself seriously. It's the only way to avoid suffering - suffering, prolonged, can be fatal.

Es así. El ser humano se acostumbra a todo. Si todos los días le dan una cucharada de mierda, primero hace arqueadas, después él mismo pide ansiosamente su cucharada de mierda y hace trampas para comer dos cucharadas y no una sola.

Hay tanta angustia y espanto dentro de cada uno de nosotros que es necesario idear mecanismos de control y ponerlos a funcionar antes de llegar al punto del naufragio.

Pedro Juan Gutiérrez

She could hear them giggling when she was already halfway down the block, but she pretended to be deaf; she didn't care. She had calluses from being teased so much.