Quotes About Resilience

Human beings have the capacity to rise above mundane circumstances and touch the eternal.

He had heard that people who had the toes chopped off one foot could not stand up, but fell over constantly until they learned to walk again. He felt like that, as if part of him had been amputated, and he could not get used to the idea that it was gone forever.

This was not a political party. It was an army.

She had always liked what Scarlett O'Hara said in Gone with the Wind: I'll think about it tomorrow. Not anymore.

but instead of feeling ashamed she was overwhelmed by a sense of her own power. She had resolved not to let people make her a victim, and she had proved she could keep her resolution.

No storm can shake my inmost calm While to that rock I'm clinging Since Love is Lord of heaven and earth How can I keep from singing?

I must remember that, Philip thought: when you're about to be turned down, go for a postponement. p314

Je n'ai pas gagné au tribunal […] mais ce que j'ai obtenu est infiniment plus précieux. Aujourd'hui, j'ai sauvé l'âme d'un homme.

A country is mostly the people in it," Maud said. "I don't love England. My parents died a long time ago, and my brother has disowned me. I love Germany. For me, Germany is my wonderful husband, Walter; my misguided son, Erik; my alarmingly capable daughter, Carla; our maid, Ada, and her disabled son; my friend Monika and her family; my journalistic colleagues . . . I'm staying, to fight the Nazis.

A man who has no fear can do anything he wants, Feliks thought. He had learned that lesson eleven years ago, in a railway siding outside Omsk. It had been snowing . . .

All the same he was depressed and bitter. Life never dealt him a winning hand.

It pleased Aliena that they were all together: she and Jack and their children, and Jack's mother, and Aliena's brother, and Martha. It was quite like an ordinary family, and Aliena could almost forget that her father had died in a dungeon, and she was legally married to Jack's stepbrother, and Ellen was an outlaw, and— She shook her head. It was no use pretending this was a normal family.

A pesar de las dificultades y frustraciones de hoy y del mañana, aún tengo un sueño

Solo te pido una cosa —insistió—, no puedes perder la esperanza.

Puedo hacer frente a cualquier cosa siempre que te tenga a mi lado.

Cuando esté a punto de recibir una negativa, he de conseguir un aplazamiento.

prométeme que nunca te rendirás. Nunca.

Lizzie found his equanimity incredible. What kind of people were these miners? Though their lives were brutally hard their spirits seemed unquenchable. By comparison her own life seemed pampered and purposeless.

What kind of message did that

dismay Preece recovered yet again, rather suddenly, and

Los seres humanos tenemos la capacidad de sobreponernos a las circunstancias cotidianas y acercarnos a lo eterno.

Es que estaba habituándose al cautiverio? Era demasiado fácil continuar marchando: doloroso para los pies, pero seguro. Debía cortar con aquello de raíz.

It was a sudden reminder that life was unpredictable.

She opened her eyes again once, before she died, and said, "You'll have to win the war without me, kiddo.