Quotes About Resilience

No todas las batallas se ganan atacando al enemigo por su flanco más débil; en ocasiones resulta aconsejable atacar justo en su punto fuerte.

People who suffer from learned helplessness think they have no control over their situations, so even if their suffering is great, they won't take the smallest action to change matters because they figure, What's the point?

Rather than resign herself to the fate dictated by her medical history, she has chosen a different, if less probable, outcome—one in which she is a shaman.

Es ist uns nicht erlaubt uns fortzustehlen, mag uns ein Gott, mag uns ein Teufel quälen.

That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.

A cardinal, whistling spring to a thaw but later finding himself mistaken, can retrieve his error by resuming his winter silence. A chipmunk, emerging for a sunbath but finding a blizzard, has only to go back to bed. But a migrating goose, staking two hundred miles of black night on the chance of finding a hole in the lake, has no easy chance for retreat. His arrival carries the conviction of a prophet who has burned his bridges.

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one intrudes. It is a bare stage where the inert I is assisted by the I suffering from that inertia. The latter wishes to free the former, but all efforts fail, as Theseus would have failed had he been not only himself but also the Minotaur; to kill him then, he would have had to kill himself

Aunque es tarde, es noche, y tú no puedes. Canta como si no pasara nada.

you've built your home you've fledged your birds you've beaten the wind with your bones you've finished alone what no one began

Es decir que anhelo un golpe de hacha que quiebre mis ramas actuales. Quedarme desnuda y esperar sonriente.

you have to cry until you break in order to make or utter a small song, to scream so much to fill the holes of absence that's what you did, what I did.

Un color invariable rige al melancólico: su interior es un espacio de color de luto; nada pasa allí, nadie pasa. Es una escena sin decorados donde el yo inerte es asistido por el yo que sufre por esa inercia. Este quisiera liberar al prisionero, pero cualquier tentativa fracasa como hubiera fracasado Teseo si, además de ser él mismo, hubiese sido, también, el Minotauro; matarlo, entonces, habría exigido matarse.

Pero hay una diferencia: Artaud luchaba cuerpo a cuerpo con su silencio. Yo no: yo lo sobrellevo dócilmente, salvo algunos accesos de cólera y de impotencia.

I offer myself awfully abyss frost I offer myself you frighten me I offer myself I don't give a fuck

Que no me vean caída. Muerta por dentro, pero de pie. Como un árbol.

Dígalo, dígalo sin miedo; tal como va el mundo todos los que no somos imbéciles necesitamos estar un poco locos.

Que no me vean caida. Muerta por dentro, pero de pie. Como un árbol.

ABUELO.—Me decía Telva que te andaban rondando no sé qué ideas tristes por la cabeza. ADELA.—Bah, tonterías. Pequeñas cosas, que una misma agranda porque a veces da gusto llorar sin saber por qué.

Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.

La espada que todo lo corta no te corta cuando te conviertes en la espada.

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.