Quotes About Resilience

Hay una dignidad en la derrota que a duras penas le corresponde a la victoria.

Sometimes a few birds, a horse, have saved the ruins of an amphitheater.

I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.

Upstream, Arkansas and Ohio have their bottomlands, too, populated by a jaundiced and hungry-looking race, prone to fevers, whose eyes gleam at the sight of stone and iron, for they know only sand and driftwood and muddy water.

Day and night, their frail and crippled ships defy the tempest.

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one's art. One must accept it. For this reason I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliations, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.

Entre las cosas hay una De la que no se arrepiente Nadie en la tierra. Esa cosa Es haber sido valiente. Siempre el coraje es mejor, La esperanza nunca es vana

Ölümü sab?rs?zl?kla bekleyerek ama hiç s?zlanmadan öldü.

La derrota tiene una dignidad que la ruidosa victoria no merece

I tada, kao i danas, svet beše surov; samo su ga sr?ani mogli proputovati, ali i bednici, koji se na sve priviknu.

I kept getting close to happiness and have stood in the shadow of suffering.

In 1883, an earthquake that lasted ninety seconds shook the south of Italy. In that earthquake, he lost his parents and his sister; he himself was buried by rubble. Two or three hours later, he was rescued. To ward off total despair, he resolved to think about the Universe - a general procedure among the unfortunate, and sometimes a balm.

No chão, encostado ao balcão, acocorava-se, imóvel como uma coisa, um homem muito velho. Os muitos anos haviam-no reduzido e polido como fazem as águas a uma pedra ou as gerações dos homens a um provérbio

No sé cuántos días y noches rodaron sobre mí. Doloroso, incapaz de recuperar el abrigo de las cavernas, desnudo en la ignorada arena, dejé que la luna y el sol jugaran con mi aciago destino.

No hay consuelo mas hábil que el pensamiento de que hemos elegido nuestras desdichas.

Em tempos de auge a conjectura de que a existência do Homem é uma quantidade constante e invariável pode entristecer ou irritar; em tempos que declinam (como este), é a promessa de que nenhum opróbrio, nenhuma calamidade nem nenhum ditador poderá empobrecer-nos.

Nulla si edifica sulla pietra, tutto sulla sabbia, ma noi dobbiamo edificare come se la sabbia fosse pietra.

I leave nothing for nobody.

When a country has a strong spirit, foreign and exotic influences do not debilitated that spirit, they strengthen it. - German Literature in the Age of Bach

Pero en algún recodo de tu encierro upede haber una luz, una hendidura

Extrañaba muchísimo a sus amigos y sabía sin amargura que éstos no lo extrañaban, dada su invencible reserva.

So you plant your garden and decorate your own soul, Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

I didn't want to be an immigrant. I was forced to be an immigrant. Alexis de Tocqueville, the French writer, said that the powerful and the happy never go into exile. He was right.