Quotes About Resilience

Out along the dim six-o'clock street, I saw leafless trees standing, striking the sidewalk there like wooden lightning, concrete split apart where they hit, all in a fenced-in ring. An iron line of pickets stuck out of the ground along the front of a tangleweed yard, and on back was a big frame house with a porch, leaning a rickety shoulder hard into the wind so's not to be sent tumbling away a couple of blocks like an empty cardboard grocery box.

Elveszni talán nem is olyan rossz.

And crying doesn't always mean need

Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there's a painful side;

Maybe he couldn't understand why we weren't able to laugh yet, but he knew you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.

Tudja, hogy az embernek nevetni kell a fájó dolgokat, mert másképp oda az ép ész, és az Å'rületbe hajtja az embert a világ.

Nobody's gonna convince me I can't do something till I try it. -- McMurphy

She don't lose on her losses, but she wins on ours. To beat her you don't have to whip her two out of three or three out of five, but every time you meet. As soon as you let down your guard, as soon as you lose once, she's won for good. And eventually we all got to lose. Nobody can help that.

Hell, are you birds telling me I can't lift that dinky little gizmo?' 'My friend, I don't recall anything about psychopaths being able to move mountains in addition to their other noteworthy assets.

Sometimes—after futile all-nights—deserts fill my work-house and smoking sand gets in my eyes . . . and I must split the swollen cabin to check the dawn, to find: the creek still parties with the moon . . . the thrusting pine and whippoorwills still celebrate the sun. It generally works, and things are cool, but sometimes—after cutting out—nothing out there happens but the night. And those days were best forgotten.

You have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to the world from running you plumb crazy

That first day still came about as close to undoing me completely, both physically and mentally, as any day had in almost a week.

Poate ca omul, cu cat e mai nebun, cu atat poate deveni mai puternic.

Sa infatti che si deve ridere delle cose delle quali si è feriti soltanto per mantenere l'equilibrio, impedire che il mondo ti renda pazzo furioso. Sa che esiste un aspetto doloroso; sa che il pollice mi duole, che la sua amichetta ha un seno illividito e che il dottore sta perdendo gli occhiali, ma non vuole consentire alla sofferenza di cancellare l'umorismo, non più di quanto consenta all'umorismo di cancellare la sofferenza.

I was born dead. Not you. You wasn't born dead. Ahhhh, it's been hard...

žmogus turi juoktis iš to, kas j? skaudina-antraip praras pusiausvyr?, ir pasaulis pavers j? bepro?iu.

Sometimes it takes more courage to ask for help than to act alone.

You can turn your weaknesses into strengths.

When you face your fears, they no longer have power over you.

Suffering is not just "negative"; it is a bond through which we all touch each other. Suffering, truly, is the first grace. Dear

This is the West. We expect things to be tough out here.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

We've made three World T20 finals and won one - that's not by power-hitting. We've beaten the power-hitting sides quite easily and convincingly in all of those tournaments.

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.