Quotes About Resilience

Not all options will be good ones. Sometimes you have to make the best of a bad lot and ride the storm.

The spine that refused to bend at all was often the most malleable once it gave way.

You'll use it, boy, and as long as you hate using it, you will use it more wisely than most men would.

It is better to be the hammer than the nail.

Pain was as much a part of life as breathing.

there was a solidness to him, as though a flood could wash around him without uprooting his feet.

There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet. Now

What could not be changed must be endured.

You can't patch a hull when the whole boat's burned.

Even mountains are worn away by the wind, and no one can climb the same hill twice.

Boy, the Creator never made the Houses. Some forget it, but go far enough back in any House, and you'll find a commoner who showed uncommon courage or kept his head and took charge when everybody else was running around like plucked geese. Mind you, another thing some like to forget is the road down can be just as sudden.

Change what you can if it needs changing, but learn to live with what you can't change.' You'll only get a sick stomach, otherwise

Things are never as bad as they appear, Dai Shan.

Like most Two Rivers folk, Rand had a strong stubborn streak. Outsiders sometimes said it was the prime trait of people in the Two Rivers, that they could give mules lessons and teach stones.

What I do, I do because there is no other way. He is hunting me again, and this time one of us has to die, I think. There is no need for those around me to die, also. Too many have died for me already. I do not want to die either, and will not, if I can manage it. There are lies in dreams, and death, but dreams hold truth, too.

Tia mi aven Moridin isainde vadin (The grave is no bar to my call)

legalább maradj talpon, úgy fogadd el az elkerülhetetlent. (...)

No one is ever so far in the Shadow, that he can't once again walk in the light.

If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping;

Clutch the bramble, and you will be pricked

But if somebody hit me, I'd hit him back. If I didn't, I would just be encouraging him to think he could hit me whenever he wanted to. Some people think they can take advantage of others, and if you don't let them know they can't, they'll just go around bullying anybody weaker than they are.

The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We've become what we needed to become." Perrin

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect