Resilience - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

You cannot say to the sun, or to the rain, To a man, geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall. And yet, to learn kindness after so much unkindness, to understand that a little girl with more courage than she knew, would find her prayers were answered, can that not be called happiness? After all these are not the memoirs of an empress, nor of a queen. These are memoirs of another kind. — Arthur Golden Memoirs of a...

I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand — Alice Sebold Lucky

For how long can one maintain total vigilance? For how long can love last, in isolation, without sinking crushed beneath its own pressure? — Dorothy Dunnett Checkmate

Because two propositions can be true at once," he said. "Because the world is imperfect. Because we are imperfect. Because sometimes we're called upon to do terrible things. And because we define...

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

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The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...

fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all...

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

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