Quotes About Resilience

Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain, of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again.

It ought to be plain how little you gain by getting excited and vexed. You'll always be late for the previous train, and always on time for the next.

ON PROBLEMS Our choicest plans have fallen through, our airiest castles tumbled over, because of lines we neatly drew and later neatly stumbled over.

A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT Stomach-ache can be a curse; heart-ache may be even worse; so thank Heaven on your knees if you've got but one of these.

BRAVE To be brave is to behave bravely when your heart is faint. So you can be really brave only when you really ain't.

South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish.

Most blacks are happy, except those who have had other ideas pushed into their ears.

There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner ... and that is the Afrikaner himself.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves with contentment.

There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

Keep mashin' for your ration.

Cuando un dios envía a un hombre un gozo, antes forja a golpes su corazón ennegrecido.

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.

A queste latitudini, sacrificare la vita per difendere un territorio è qualcosa che scorre nelle vene da cinque secoli. E sembra tutt'altro che sopito, come istinto.

Nella realtà è sempre Golia a vincere. Ma non per questo Davide smetterà di guardarsi intorno, cercando una nuova pietra da scagliare.

Ho sempre preso la vita a morsi. Quel giorno, le ho piantato addosso i denti e anche le unghie.

Fix it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

Pamela realizes for the first time in her life that she hadn't made the wrong choice at all. Nor had she made the right choice. She had simply made a choice. And somewhere along the way, she had lost the courage to live by it.

I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.

No. Don't give up hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.

We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.

If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim.

Best way to deal with fear is to confront it.