Quotes About Resilience

Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone -- Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

To win their battles, these kinds of underdogs rely on their own and one another's ability to absorb violence. They find their might in their nature. They believe victory is assured by their nature, and as long as they act in accordance with their nature, they will claim it. Because they are able to fight, they must fight.

There'd be no story without complications. With nothing to overcome, we'd die unstoried deaths.

Without pain, there is no call for anger, much less rampaging.

You fucked up,' he said. 'Know that you're someone who fucked up. But know that doesn't make you a fuckup. The difference is a matter of repetition

Underdog stories are easy to tell. It is best to be suspicious of underdog stories.

Let us be as the Cage has never been able to make us. Let us now all at once face forward in our boxes, still and silent as nightmares. We did.

We can't just have everything without complications, you and I. There'd be no story without complications. With nothing to overcome, we'd die unstoried deaths.

Being humiliated only makes it easier to restrain you. And being restrained makes it possible to torture you, for the unrestrained cannot be tortured; the unrestrained can only be fought. So to be restrained is to be unable to fight, and to be humiliated is to be readied for torture. To know you have been readied for torture is to await torture. And to await torture is, itself, torture.

Ludzie! ka?dy z was móg?by, samotny, wi?ziony, My?l? i wiar? zwala? i pod?wiga? trony.

P?acz; lecz niestety, bole?? przypomnienia Nas samych trawi, a nic wko?o nas nie zmienia!

?ywy, o nic przed nikim nie umia?em ?ebra?, ?ebra? lito?ci nie b?d? umar?y!

Good boozers make good bruisers.

Wszystko przesz?o, a czemu? nie przejd? ?zy moje!

Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.

Kindness—that is, the ability to bear the vulnerability of others, and therefore of oneself—has become a sign of weakness (except of course among saintly people, in whom it is a sign of their exceptionality).

10. You have to deal with stuff on your own and that's all there is to it.

And now it's afterwards. The worse of it is: it will always be afterwards now.

Many people know of the maxim said by the biologist François Jacob describing natural selection as a tinkerer. I like to think of the words of the US president Teddy Roosevelt: "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward." Job 5:7

Failure is always an option.

Wow," says Peter, "when your guidance counselor tells you to die, you really have problems.

What are you eating?" he ask us. "Whatever won't kill me, please" I said. "Whatever don't kill you'll make you stronger" says Eddie, who is always ready with folksy wisdom. "All right," I say. "Then give me whatever will make me stronger." "One pizza, coming up.