Quotes About Resilience

He felt more human with his boots on. A man can face the world with something on his feet.

She didn't say goodbye. She set off up the street, dodging the pedestrians, walking fast. He watched her, waiting to see if she might look back. But of course she didn't. He knew she wouldn't. She wasn't the looking-back kind.

What a day in prospect: the sort of day one waded through with no aim higher than to reach the other end intact.

Push out a bayonet. If it strikes fat, push deeper. If it strikes iron, pull back for another day.

How much longer, Catilina, will you try our patience

El arte de la vida consiste en saber enfrentarnos a los problemas a medida que surgen en lugar de amargarnos la existencia preocupándonos antes de que aparezcan.

at that instant i knew there was no horror the world could offer - no war, no genocide, no famine, no childhood cancer - to which Sidney Kroll would not see the funny side

I doubt they'd kill me. And if they did—well, what does it matter? I'm old, and there could be no better death than in defence of freedom.

Cato was always the perfect Stoic, as long as nothing went wrong.

Sometimes,' he said, summing up the discussion with an aphorism I have never forgotten, 'if you find yourself stuck in politics, the thing to do is start a fight – start a fight, even if you do not know how you are going to win it, because it is only when a fight is on, and everything is in motion, that you can hope to see your way through.

We are an ark.......surrounded by a rising flood of discord

The trees themselves, as in winters past, will survive their burdening, broken thrive.

Unable to sleep, or pray, I stand by the window looking out at moonstruck trees a December storm has bowed with ice. Maple and mountain ash bend under its glassy weight, their cracked branches falling upon the frozen snow. The trees themselves, as in winters past, will survive their burdening, broken thrive. And am I less to You, my God, than they?

all art is pain suffered and outlived

confess i am curiously drawn unmentionable to the americans doubt i could exist among them for long however psychic demands far too severe much violence much that repels i am attracted none the less their variousness their ingenuity their elan vital and that some thing essence quiddity i cannot penetrate or name

The trees themselves, as in winters past, will survive their burdening, broken thrive. And am I less to You, my God, than they?

We fight our wish to die.

We are the boys who go to a particular place, at H-hour, occupy a designated terrain, stand on it, dig the enemy out of their holes, force them then and there to surrender or die. We're the bloody infantry.

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." Robert Heinlein STRANGER IN A STRANGELAND

always remember that when things look darkest, they usually get considerably worse

Bone always outlasts feather

All love is blind to reason, and maybe that's why some people are so strong.

There ain't a problem on this great green earth helped by feeling sorry for yourself.

We all have our battle scars, Kentucky. The ones who wear them on the outside are just a little more honest about it, that's all.