Quotes About Resilience

War's a bugger, isn't it?" he said. "All the mates I started out with are gone. And now most of the boys I flew with." He said it in the most matter-of-fact way, as if it were something quite expected.

It's not fair. But then nothing has been fair for a long time, has it? All those chaps I flew with who went down in flames. All those poor sods sitting at dinner in their houses who were blasted to pieces by doodlebugs. And the poor, damned wretches in the concentration camps. None of them deserved to die.

Don't look so sad," she said, touching my cheek. "All is well. We are tested and we survive, and life will be good again.

Like a fox being chased by the hounds, she needed a bolthole in which to lick her wounds.

Let the past inform your future, but not define it.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy." —Lazarus Long

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

I can't fall any father than the ground,' says the wrangler to the men who predict that he's going to be thrown. There's a limit to everything, he means; and when all is said and done, strength is simply not to be afraid.

True love doesn't happen right away it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.

Hay hombres sobrios y aplomados, a los que la desgracia los quiebra por adentro, sin que se vea.

Estoy convencido de que nunca nos sucede nada que no hayamos previsto, nada para lo que no estemos preparados. Nos han tocado malos tiempos, como a todos los hombres, y hay que aprender a vivir sin ilusiones

Es la frase más triste de todas las lenguas: "todo va a estar bien". Describe la esperanza y el anhelo, claro que sí, pero al mismo tiempo reconoce la crisis, la tempestad, el mal momento: todo va a estar bien, señoras y señores, porque ahora mismo no lo está, porque esto que estamos viviendo es un terrible inconveniente, un triste aprieto.

y poco a poco me convenzo más y más de que la ficción tiende al drama porque la vida es igual: se quiere algo, vivir, por ejemplo, desesperadamente, pero se tienen muchos problemas para conseguirlo".

Druids always pick the hard way; it encourages natural selection.

Roy: It's a winding road with no guardrails and some deeply stupid cul-de-sacs, but it's still technically a path.

he wanted to win. And would do whatever it took. Here was a self-made man, filled with the most dangerous kind of confidence: he had done it before and believed he could do it again. This gave him the air of a berserker, who says, If you're going to fight me, you better kill me.

You think there can be love without suffering? Having without losing?

When I was in Outremer, I got shot in the face with an arrow. Should've killed me instantly; but by some miracle it hung up in my cheekbone, and an enemy doctor we'd captured the day before yanked it out with a pair of tongs. You should be dead, they said to me, like I'd deliberately cheated. No moral fibre.

So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you're dead, you'll be rotted away anyway. It's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awfully small, and not as strong as we think we are.

The problem with long-term investing is the short term.

This is not a tragedy. I am used up.

Those who do not see the truth in battle march willingly to defeat.

Those who do not see the truth in battle march willingly to defeat," grunted