Quotes About Resilience

We try not to dwell too much on what is gone. The strongest heart will break under that strain.

The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers.

You come back here, or I'll hero you! I'll thump you so you think you've had an adventure!

Well, the sword that could not be broken was shattered in the end, sheepherder, but it fought the Shadow to the last. There is one rule, above all others, for being a man.

It is all right to hate them, Egwene. It is. They deserve it. But it isn't all right to let them make you like they are.

Behind him, Birgitte Silverbow stood over her corpse, one foot to either side of the headless body.

The fall of the Stone will be one of the major proofs that the Dragon has been reborn. May the Stone stand till I am dust.

Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope.

In war, as in farming, you sometimes had to step in and get knee-deep in the muck.

Lan shook his head slightly. "He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

An argument must have opposition if it is to prove itself, my son," she said. "One who argues truly learns the depth of his commitment through adversity. Did you not learn that trees grow roots most strongly when winds blow through them?

Peel the apple in your hand, girl, not the one on the tree, Lini's thin voice seemed to whisper in her ear. Tears are for after; they just waste time before.

Sing of Manetheren, the sword that could not be broken.

If a sword had memory, it might be grateful to the forge fire, but never fond of it.

But we are alive at this moment, and before us is the hope of remaining alive. Do not surrender before you are beaten, Ogier.

People frequently continued to go on as they had been after all purpose in it had been lost.

People never really changed, yet the world did, with disturbing regularity. You just had to live with it, or at least live through it. Now and then, with luck, you could affect the direction of the changes, but even if you stopped one, you only set another in motion.

The surface of the water may be still, but the fish never stop swimming.

The secret, it turned out, had not been to harden himself to the point of breaking. It had not been to become numb. It had been to walk in pain, like the pain of the wounds at his side, and accept that pain as part of him. Two

Strong endures; hard shatters." Cadsuane

Leaders in stories never had to put up with this sort of thing.

Sometimes you had to laugh if only to keep from crying.

Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

Even the mountains will be worn down with time