Quotes About Resilience

Be raped quietly, you mean.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting." Jill

The weak ones died, and the bad ones died or were killed; the stock that survived was always stronger, smarter, more decent. New Beginnings was a planet to be proud of, and it would get better and better and better for a long time.

Don't bang your head against a stone wall." He might add: "Climb over, go around, tunnel under, knock a hole in it—and if nothing works, forget it! Change your plans. Or take a nap. But don't get ulcers.

The first principle in riding a tiger is to hang on tight to its ears.

Uncertainty may be the factor that makes life tolerable. Hope is what keeps us going.

Rozkazy, které dostáváte, nejsou nesplnitelné, to se jenom tak zdá, protože jsou skoro nesplnitelné.

My husband is a brute. And I've got a cruel stepmother just like Snow White. I mean, Cinderella. And my Pop thinks I'm imaginary. But I love you all anyway because you're all I've got.

I've been afraid so many times that I am no longer scared to be afraid again. What can't be cured must be endured.

Not bleedin' likely, Aunt Nanny Goat. I toughened my feet for karate—I can break a four-by-nine with my feet and get nary a bruise. Or run on sharp gravel.

Never try to outstubborn a cat

Control of anything essential to life should be decentralized and paralleled so that if one machine fails, another takes over.

Hopelessness in a worthy cause is no excuse for abandoning it. My race fought without hope for many generations … then hope appeared. You and yours may do the same.

Women are more rugged than men; they have to be.

We need to have as many baskets for our eggs as possible. Even if we don't manage to ruin this planet ourselves, natural disasters or changes—or even changes in our star—could make it impossible to live on this planet. —Philosopher Anson MacDonald, radio interview, Butler, MO, USA, Terra, July 7, 1987 ("Anson MacDonald Day")

Hit anything hard enough, strike sparks. Elementary physics, known to everybody but intelligentsia

If it has an impact, it means there is a war inside me. You set it off, but what you set off is my business. Anything that can burn in a person should burn. Only the things that are fireproof are worth keeping. If you can hurt my feelings, they are better off hurt, because it's an error in me.

Often, when new growth occurs, the most dreadful things seem to happen, but then we see that they were exactly what was required.

The only alternative to torture is art" George Bernard Shaw. This means we will engage in our creativity or have to face its alternative brutality.

You see, my love. As you've always said, after the rain- Sun. After the darkness- Light. And after the illness- Health. Exactly, said the Tsar. We mustn't give up faith.

On the other hand, he was compassionate because he knew pain, real pain, and real suffering too. Yet even in those bouts when it looked for sure as if he would die, he was never given morphine, not even as his screams of pain rattled the palace windows. That poor child had traveled to the bottom of life and back again, and naturally that had had a profound effect on him.

Although we suffer horribly still there is peace in our souls

For very long periods I am really patient, and then out breaks my bad temper. It is not so difficult to bear great trials, but these little buzzing mosquitos are so trying.

Persistence Pays - The person who is willing to keep asking for what they want, and keeps demonstrating value, is ultimately the most persuasive." – Jason Nazar, CEO and co-founder, Docstoc [8]