Quotes About Resilience

Stardust is the hardest thing to hold out for. You must make of yourself a perfect plane- something still upon which something settles- something like sugar grains on something like metal, but with none of the chill. It's hard to explain. Stardust

Hide and Seek It's hard not to jump out instead of waiting to be found. It's hard to be alone so long and then hear someone come around. It's like some form of skin's developed in the air that, rather than have torn, you tear.

I said to myself Dora, let me tell you a thing or two. There is no Santa Claus. You cannot always count on getting everything you want. And when you wake up that day and Santa has not laid out everything you dreamed of or he might have missed your house completely then you have to be brave and you can come to me and we can talk.

took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.

I'm fighting to save myself, and save myself, I will. Mary Magdalene in The Last Temptation of Christ

Hope,' he said. 'Damn thing never leaves you alone.

How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly?

It's nonsense to believe people go on loving each other regardless of what happens.

If disappointments do come, you will carry on still. You will say, just as he does, I am so lucky.

I wish I could go out and walk and run and skateboard and swim in lakes. But I can't because my mother has Courage. So instead I get to stay in bed and be sick. I'm glad about this. I really am.

Chess is all about maintaining coherent strategies. It's about not giving up when the enemy destroys one plan but to immediately come up with the next. A game isn't won and lost at the point when the king is finally cornered. The game's sealed when a player gives up having any strategy at all. When his soldiers are all scattered, they have no common cause, and they move one piece at a time, that's when you've lost.

Don't keep looking back all the time, you're bound to get depressed. And all right, you can't do your job as well as you used to. But it's the same for all of us, see? We've all got to put our feet up at some point... you've got to keep looking forward.

Küçük bir k?z gördüm, eski iyi yürekli dünyay? göÄŸsüne yaslam??, art?k kalamayaca??n? yüreÄŸinde hissettiÄŸi bu dünyay? tutuyor, onu asla b?rakmas?n istiyordu.

Our life together's like a tale with a happy end, no matter what turns it took in the way.

But you will no doubt agree that the very best staff plans are those which give clear margins of error to allow for those days when an employee is ill or for one reason or another below par.

What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took?

Bir yerlerde bir ?rmak olduÄŸunu düÅŸünüp duruyorum. Sular? coÅŸkun bir ?rmak. Suyun içinde iki kiÅŸi var ve birbirlerine tutunmaya çal???yorlar, bütün güçleriyle uÄŸra??yorlar, ama sonunda dayanam?yorlar. Ak?nt? çok kuvvetli. Birbirlerini b?rakmak, ayr? yerlere sürüklenmek zorundalar. San?r?m bizim durumumuz da bu.

When we were new, we used to worry that because we often couldn't see the Sun from mid-store,we'd grow weaker and weaker.

No hago más que pensar en ese río de no sé qué parte, con unas aguas muy rápidas. Y en esas dos personas que están en medio de ellas, tratando de agarrarse mutuamente, aferrándose con todas sus fuerzas el uno al otro, hasta que al final ya no pueden aguantar más. La corriente es demasiado fuerte. Tienen que soltarse, y se separan, y se los lleva el agua.

cuando perdíamos algo precioso, y buscábamos y buscábamos por todas partes y no lo encontrábamos, no debíamos perder por completo la esperanza. Nos quedaba aún una brizna de consuelo al pensar que un día, cuando fuéramos mayores y pudiéramos viajar libremente por todo el país, siempre podríamos ir a Norfolk y encontrar lo que habíamos perdido hacía tanto tiempo

when we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we were grown up, and we were free to travel around the country, we could always go and find it again in Norfolk.

I was upset. But I'm not any more. You have to look forward in life.

?n vacibi o idi ki, dÉ™yÉ™rli bir ??yam?z? itirÉ™ndÉ™ vÉ™ axtar?b-axtar?b tapa bilmÉ™yÉ™ndÉ™ qÉ™lbimiz tamamilÉ™ q?r?lm?rd?. Böyüyüb ölkÉ™dÉ™ sÉ™rbÉ™st sÉ™yahÉ™t edÉ™ bilÉ™ndÉ™ Norfolka getmÉ™k imkan?m?z?n olaca?? fikri ilÉ™ özümüzÉ™ tÉ™sÉ™lli verÉ™ bilirdik.

Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day.