Quotes About Resilience

She will love deeply, she will suffer terribly, she will have glorious moments to compensate.

Ah, well, let's not borrow trouble; the rate of interest is too high.

There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a comforting thought

But maybe everything'll go all right. In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take what ever God sends.

I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.

I've put out a lot of little roots these two years, Anne told the moon, and when I'm pulled up they're going to hurt a great deal. But it's best to go, I think, and, as Marilla says, there's no good reason why I shouldn't. I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

It makes me very sad at times to think about her. But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

She could keep her silence, it was evident, as energetically as she could talk.

It does people good to have to do things they don't like...in moderation.

Marilla, what if I fail!' 'You'll hardly fail completely in one day and there's plenty more days coming,' said Marilla.

Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

I'm afraid you'll find out all too soon that life's a melancholy business.

The other day Nan said, 'Nothing can ever be quite the same for any of us again.' It made me feel rebellious. Why shouldn't things be the same again - when everything is over and Jem and Jerry are back? We'll all be happy and jolly again and these days will seem just like a bad dream.

You could not fence with an antagonist who met rapier thrust with blow of battle axe.

You're a brick! You're a whole cartload of bricks.

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

When we have to do a thing...we can do it.

Leslie, after her first anguish was over, found it possible to go on with life after all, as most of us do, no matter what our particular form of torment has been. It is even possible that she enjoyed moments of it, when she was one of the gay circle in the little house of dreams.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

Soul-ache doesn't worry folks near as much as stomach-ache.

But we can't have things perfect in this imperfect world.

the dark is your friend, isn't it? When you turn on the light, it makes the dark your enemy . . . and it glowers in at you resentfully.