Quotes About Resilience

je toucherais le corps d'un chêne.

This lady is strong medicine, for external use only.

n'a plus la certitude qu'on va gagner, dans cette lutte contre la méchanceté des collines.

Je vais te dire le secret; c'est tout sucré, comme un mort. « II y a trop de sang, autour de nous. « Il y a dix trous, il y a cent trous, dans des chairs, dans du bois vivant, par où le sang et la sève coulent sur le monde comme une Durance. « Il y a cent trous, il y a mille trous que nous avons faits, nous, avec nos mains.

On ne se refait pas; il faut s'utiliser tel qu'on est. Ça ne s'adapte pas toujours. De là les peines.

Elle se servait beaucoup de sa larme pour amollir son mal.

on leur a coupé le bout de la langue pour qu'ils ne puissent plus chanter le cantique.

Aubignane, like a small wasps' nest, was stuck against the salient of the plateau. It was true that only three persons remained there. A grassless slope went down from the village. Almost at the bottom, there was a patch of soft earth and the wiry hair of a stunted osier bed. Below was a narrow valley with a little water.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

I will take refuge in my real country. My country, my France, is a France that cannot be invaded.

It seems to me that today every piece of writing, every word one Frenchman can say to all the other French must be first and foremost a sign of fraternity, and then must mean: 'Be proud, whoever you are, my comrade, my brother. All this happened only because we were not proud enough. Be proud. You are not defeated and you never will be.

1. Once again, my country, that country which is only an idea has not been invaded and never will be. 2. Pétain is not France. Pétain and Laval do not speak for us. Their word does not commit us to anything and cannot dishonor us. 3. The only right way to gauge this event must be in terms of the world. In the world, France has not been defeated.

That road, as it turned out, would be even lonelier than she had reason to fear.

When the world is tipping beneath you and you are tumbling even when you are sitting, even when you are sleeping (especially when you are sleeping), any place is the same as any other place.

always on the edge of some beautiful redemption.

The best way to keep from being a victim is to write your own terms." It

I get so scared, I can't stop it. It's like black waves, and I'm a little cork. I bob to the surface and think I'll do okay, and then another wave comes and I'm drowning again." I

tragedy is suffering elevated into art, it's art that helps humans endure—and sometimes even transcend—their suffering. It's

her final words seem to ripple outward like waves of water from a thrown stone—don't remember don't remember don't remember don'trememberdon't "Remember?

If you keep telling the same sad small story, you will keep loving the same sad small life.

If you keep telling the same sad, small story, you will keep living the same sad, small life.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.