Quotes About Resilience

Unable to turn back the clock, they let themselves be turned.

To cut a man with a single blow is easy. To avoid being cut by a man is difficult.

Only the wounded healer can truly heal.

The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

I'm going to—uhhh!

I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

I know that our world is going through a very difficult time right now, but I will never lose my faith in humanity, and our incredible ability to overcome just about anything.

The worst thing that you can do for yourself is to sit back and do nothing. You're stronger than you realize.

Il te restera toujours tes rèves pour réinventer le monde que l'on t'a confisqué.

Et puis, c'est la vie; elle ne nous prend que ce qu'elle nous a donné. Ni plus ni moins. (p.190)

La fortune, comme l,infortune, est une épreuve, et notre vocation est de la surmonter. (p.315)

Even though I was growing up in a land that had been tormented since the dawn of time, I refused to consider the world as a battlefield.

Quelle que soit l'ampleur des dégâts, aucun cataclysme n'empêchera la Terre de tourner.

Les choses se seraient arrêtées là s'il n'y avait pas eu ce coup de vent. Si on m'avait dit qu'un simple coup de vent pouvait changer le cours d'une vie, j'aurais peut-être pris les devant. Mais à dix-sept ans, on se sent en mesure de retomber sur ses pattes quoi qu'il arrive.

Il est des choses qui nous dépassent. Les contester ne nous mènerait nulle part. Les traquer nous perdrait à jamais. Il faut mettre une croix sur ce qui est fini si l'on veut se réinventer ailleurs.

Le courage, monsieur Krausmann, le courage tout court, c'est de croire en soi.

Existence has taught me that a man can live on love and fresh water, on crumbs and promises, but he can never survive insults. And insults are all I've known since I came into the world. Every morning. Every evening. That's all I've seen for my whole life.