Quotes About Resilience

I'm not "depressed," she said. Besides, I hate that word. OK, what should we call it? She fluffed the pillow behind her back, indignant. I'm very faithful to my problems.

Surveying the travails of the thirtieth president, some writers have suggested that those personal defeats are the essence of the Coolidge story. They err. Coolidge's is not a story of "Yes, but." It is a story of "But yes." For at every stage, Coolidge did push forward, and so triumph.

Others were of humbler background: those farmers who found themselves forced to kill off their piglets in a time of hunger because FDR's Agricultural Adjustment Administration ordained they must;

Dream Big. Nope, BIGGER. Ignore those who laugh at your goals. They will need that sense of humor when they're fetching your coffee.

Induratize (v.) To harden the heart. Among the inevitabilities of old age are that the heart is hardened twice; first figuratively, through experience and loss, and then literally, in the form of atherosclerosis.

Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure..

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not by my weakness.

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.

If you have no more tears left to weep, then don't weep. Laugh.

We had sold our death to somebody at the door for the sum of £70:18:6d and lent our fear to somebody at the door as well on interest of £3:10:0d per month, so we did not care about death and we did not fear again.

But when the fire was about to quench, their children came with whips and stones then they began to whip and stone our heads; when they left that, they began to climb on our heads and jump from one to the second; after that they started to spit, make urine and pass excreta on our heads; but when the eagle saw that they wanted to nail our heads, then it drove all of them away from the field with its beak.

A tormentor forces his victims to be hardy.

almost always, refusing to leave. When Devi heard her father

The fiercest emotional pain has the power to swallow you whole if you are stationary long enough.

some people bounced back from a train wreck and some people couldn't get over a bee sting.

moving forward only because backward wasn't possible.

She believes in will. It is so frail and delicate at night that she can't even imagine the next morning, but it is so wide and binding by the middle of the next day that she cannot even remember the terrible night. It is as if she gives birth every day.

You know, the crisis passes, the crucible cools, and there we are, slightly improved, not much altered.

Clare is good, spiky company, and she is the very best companion to have in a bad situation. Trouble brings out the cheer beneath her darkness, unlike everyday life, which tends to have the opposite effect

so we could have roses in December. Someone did not add, So we could have blizzards in June and food poisoning when there was nothing to eat.

People," he said. "They can't be underestimated.

There are people you always love, no matter what they have done to you, no matter what you have done to them.