Quotes About Resilience

Decision fatigue depletes one's willpower.

This book is meant to tell the story of Indian lives, and Indian histories, in such a way as to render those histories and those lives as something much more, much greater and grander, than a catalog of pain.

In 1891, the Indians who remained everywhere poked their heads aboveground and surveyed the desolation of their homelands and asked the question Indians had been asking since the beginning: What can we do next to survive?

Los políticos, como los niños, tienden a mentir como primera reacción. Es natural. La mentira es un manto que resguarda en primera instancia. Pero la verdad es terca y muerde con dientes afilados.

Hay gente que hace de su ingenuidad su bote de navegación por el mar tormentoso.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

I now saw, in my situation, several points of similarity with that of the oxen. They were property, so was I; they were to be broken, so was I. Covey was to break me, I was to break them; break and be broken—such is life.

Remember that oppression hath the power to make even a wise man mad.

In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem. Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of tea. Your house has been destroyed by a meteorite? Nice cup of tea and a biscuit. Your entire family has been eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex that has travelled through a space/time portal? Nice cup of tea and a piece of cake. Possibly a savoury option would be welcome here too, for example a Scotch egg or a sausage roll.

A bully can only make you feel bad about yourself if you let them.

You mustn't let bullies get you down.

All our lives are hard in one way or another... But listen to me... We need to be kind to each other, and stick together, OK? This place is tough enough without you making my life a misery.

Never complain, even if you are in great pain.

But as ever in life, wherever there is tragedy, you can often find comedy.

sitting behind the controls of his Hurricane, taking on a squadron of deadly Messerschmitts, when

Nec quererer, si etiam in tormentis

David Walliams

Eric's grandmother is a fearsome character

Raj was a big jolly man, who always had a smile on his face, even if you told him his shop was on fire.

David Walliams

In heart-stoppingly* eye-wateringly* bum-clenchingly* measure.

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