Quotes about Resilience

I do not fear my vulnerability because I no longer confuse it with weakness.

Lucia argued something similar. She gave as an example the Chihuahua, Marcelo, who lived eternally grateful in the present, accepting whatever might happen without worrying about any future misfortune that might add to all those he had previously encountered in his life as an abandoned dog. "Too

He had always been thin, but there he was reduced to nothing but skin and bones. His skin was burned by the unrelenting sun, salt, and sand, his features sharpened: he was a Giacometti sculpture in cast iron.

Carme told them she couldn't remember what she felt, but she realized it's hard to die, and to invite death is cowardice.

This is a road I must travel bleeding.

We were working under very harsh conditions on 'Zero Kelvin.' We were up there in the Arctic, closer to the North Pole than to a hospital. Sometimes you had to sleep in small Arctic tents with guns to protect yourself from polar bears and stuff.

Gritty people train at the edge of their comfort zone. They zero in on one narrow aspect of their performance and set a stretch goal to improve it.

The only way round is through.

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few more upon it.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.