Quotes About Resilience

Mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

K2 is not some malevolent being, lurking there above the Baltoro, waiting to get us. It's just there. It's indifferent. It's an inanimate mountain made of rock, ice, and snow. The savageness is what we project onto it, as if we blame the peak for our own misadventures on it.

Every person has his or her own Annapurna." I go on to explain that there were many Annapurnas in my life—challenges I wasn't sure I could meet—but that "the real Annapurna was my last one." For each of you out there, your Annapurna might be a tough project at work, a bad illness, or the breakup of a marriage, but the trick is to find a way of converting adversity into something positive, a challenge to look forward to.

It reminds me of a very wise saying about mountaineering that my wife, Paula, repeats often: "Just when you think you've got it figured out, you don't.

On this side of the cross misery persists, but the scales are tipped in favor of joy.

We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers.

But stinging nettles: They just love existing, don't they? They're bastards. Stinging nettles are the Nazis of the weed world.

Could adults actually deal with a weird monster under their bed? I think if the monster started moving around, then- well we'd get out of bed and we'd get a frying pan, and then we'd beat the crap out of the monster under the bed. Or we'd get a broom and poke the monster out. No, we'd lock the door and set fire to the house.

You stick a wooden stake through the heart of your failures and they become successes.

Estamos completamente imersos neste mundo que é o dos nossos sofrimentos, das nossas felicidades e dos nossos amores. Não sentir é evitar o sofrimento mas também o regozijo. Quanto mais aptos estamos para a felicidade mais aptos estamos para a infelicidade.

Attends-toi à l'inattendu! Voilà comment je peux concilier ma crainte de catastrophe réelle avec mon espoir, que je maintiens toujours, envers et contre tout.

les juifs d'Israël, descendants des victimes d'un apartheid nommé ghetto, ghettoïsent les Palestiniens. Les juifs qui furent humiliés, méprisés, persécutés, humilient, méprisent et persécutent les Palestiniens. Les juifs qui furent victimes d'un ordre impitoyable imposent leur ordre impitoyable aux Palestiniens. Les juifs victimes de l'inhumanité montrent une terrible inhumanité »

It is strange how new and unexpected conditions bring out unguessed ability to meet them.

Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.

It is always a foolish thing to contemplate suicide; for no matter how dark the future may appear today, tomorrow may hold for us that which will alter our whole life in an instant, revealing to us nothing but sunshine and happiness. So, for my part, I shall always wait for tomorrow.

but life would be very miserable indeed were I to spend it in terror of the thing that has not yet happened.

I should at least die as I had lived—fighting.

To me there always seems a way to gain the opposite side of an obstacle. If one cannot pass over it, or below it, or around it, why then there is but a single alternative left, and that is to pass through it.

I had had to discard my rifle

To face that savage mountain of onrushing ferocity, to stand unshaken before the hideous fangs that he knew were bared in slavering blood-thirstiness, though he could not see them, required nerves of steel; but of such were the nerves of Carthoris of Helium.

For three days he has pursued me, she said, through this horrible world. How I have passed through in safety I cannot guess, nor how I have always managed to outdistance him; yet I have done it, until just as you discovered me.

To me there always seems a way to gain the opposite side of an obstacle. If one cannot pass over it, or below it, or around it, why then there is but a single alternative left, and that is to pass through it. I could

Give them what you wish of it, what you think will not harm them, but do not feel aggrieved if they laugh at you.

Leave to a Thark his head and one hand and he may yet conquer.