Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or endeavor you've ever concocted, can be stripped from you in an instant. Sooner or later, it will happen. So prepare yourself. Be ready not to be ready. Be ready to be brought to your knees and beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force of cautious habit will save you from this fact: nothing is indestructible.
Beat me, hate me, you can never break me.
You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.
They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
You can bend but never break me. Cause it only serves to make me more determined to achieve my final goal.
Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.
Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.
I'm still fly, I'm sky high and I dare anybody to try and cut my wings
'They have nothing in their entire arsenal to break the spirit of one single Republican prisoner-of-war who refuses to be broken,' I thought, and that was very true. They cannot or never will break our spirit.
Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being.
My dad always taught me never to give up in my mind. You can never really beat me. It sounds ridiculous, but I will always come back for you. You can't beat someone who never gives up. I could lose 100 times to you, but I will always get you. I will die trying. This applies not only to swimming but to my life as well.
We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
I don't want to be remembered as just some tough guy who could take punches.
If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.
A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human, in every good and awful sense. Perhaps most amazingly of all, Thomas Buergenthal remembers and renders the small mysteries and grand passions of childhood, even a childhood lived under the most horrific circumstances.
I won't let anything destroy me.
I've been through everything. I always said I was like those round-bottomed circus dolls — you know, those dolls you could push down and they'd come back up? I've always been like that. I've always said, No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I'm going to come right back up.
I give in to nothing or nobody. Cut me, break my bones, it was all the same.
So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN.
I think positively, you can't harm me mentally, not physically, not spiritually, you'll never get rid of me.
I know I'm a champion. I know I've got it in me, they can't stop me.
You ever laughed so hard nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute, no matter what they tried to do to you?
The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.
The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.
