Quotes About Resilience

Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.

posible que me caiga —concluí—, pero mientras siga respirando y tenga fuerzas para seguir esforzándome, me levantaré.

There are mornings when it feels as if you rise up to the surface through a mud bath. With your feet stuck in a block of cement. When you know that you've expired in the night and have nothing to be happy about except the fact that at least you've already died so they can't transplant your lifeless organs.

Maybe I should give up and go back the way I came. But I stay. I detest fear. I hate being scared. There is only one path to fearlessness. It's the one that leads into the mysterious center of the terror.

Cilv?kiem, kuriem ir iekš?jie resursi, pareizie notikumi iest?jas. Tie izskat?s p?c nejauš?b?m. Bet tie rodas aiz nepieciešam?bas.

If you reach the age of thirty-seven in a country like Denmark, and have regular intervals free of pharmaceuticals, haven't committed suicide, and haven't completely sold out the tender ideals of your childhood, then you've learned a little about facing adversity in life.

In qualche modo è come quando avevamo diciassette anni. Crediamo che la disperazione ci bloccherà completamente, ma non lo fa, si incapsula in un punto scuro da qualche parte dentro di noi, e costringe il resto del sistema a funzionare , a occuparsi di cose pratiche che forse non sono importanti ma che ci tengono in movimento, garantendo che in qualche modo siamo vivi.

De satte kurs mot kyrkan, arm i arm. En lång fräknig kvinna, i vars underliv säd från tre olika män förgäves försökte hålla sams. Och en gaselliknande flicka med en funktionspromille på 1,2 som höll sig upprätt och någorlunda klar enbart på grund av väninnans stöd, B-vitaminerna och sin nyfikenhet.

One can only ask to play as well as possible the notes one is given.

Time is something you have to hold on to.

Loneliness is a source of loathsome ice-cold suffering, the suffering of unreality. At such times we need people to teach us that we're not really so far gone.

It was nearly winter. I had just seen a friend die, and was again beginning to take pleasure in my own existence. This friend, who thought of himself as the "first man to experience pain", had nevertheless tried up to the last moment to wish death away. I was thankful for all things and decreed: Enjoy yourself, take advantage of your days of good health.

When F. W. Woolworth opened his first store, a merchant on the same street tried to fight the new competition. He hung out a big sign: "Doing business in this same spot for over fifty years." The next day Woolworth also put out a sign. It read: "Established a week ago: no old stock.

But in the fourth century, as in any other, 'no plan survives first contact with the enemy'.

The author describes the attitude of some on the frontier at Rome's twilight as exhibiting "a kind of London-in-the-blitz determination to carry on being more Roman than usual.

The cornerstone of the Roman legionnaires' astonishing fighting spirit can be attributed to their training.

These eggs are broken. Cracked." "Yes, ma'am. That happens sometimes." "Does it?" "Yes, it's the unfortunate part of being an egg.

How we gentle our losses into paler ghosts.

Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights, a compromised system, a beetle, as in the now dying black timber on the mountains.

Sometimes now I think just making it through a day is the point. Practically a triumph, don't you think? If you don't melt down or kill anyone or just give up? If you happen to be kind, or help someone else, or create something beautiful, well, you've really done something to crow about.

With everything seeming to fall apart, good habits were one thing to hold on to.

we can proceed in our lives just as easily from love to love as from loss to loss. A good thing to remember in the middle of the night when you're not sure how you will get through the next three breaths.

She collapsed. I stepped forward and caught her. I thought of two trees nearly unrooted and leaning against each other.

life was about being agile in spirit and adapting quickly.