Quotes About Resilience

We in New York were very poor in the depths of the Depression - but I must say, that was the best time of my life.

If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is.

After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.

From the day I got out, it was an evolutionary process. I was sick for, like, two years - that's the best way I can describe what was happening with me. But as time went by and I finished law school, it became clear to me that I needed a platform.

A cactus doesn't live in the desert because it likes the desert; it lives there because the desert hasn't killed it yet.

Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost.

I'm a settler, and I live in the Judean desert.

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?

'12 Years a Slave' was very powerful, very moving, and deserved all of the acclaim it did get.

Conflicts are multiplying - people are suffering. But we don't give up, because we know every man, woman, and child deserves a life of peace.

I don't think anybody deserves to be defined totally by his enemies.

Everybody deserves the opportunity to fight and fight with everything that they're given.

When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.

Despair has its own calms.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope.

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

A novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?