Quotes About Resilience

And the blue pigs walked all the way to Montana just to be eaten. Life ain't for sissies, as Augustus might have said.

I'd like to see you think the roof back on that barn," Call said.

It was wearying, trying to adjust to all the paces life required.

He had just begun to realize how hard it was to get from day to day if one felt hopeless.

could put no weight on the wounded ankle at

he had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren't.

he had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren't. They only became so if one thought about them too much so that fear took over. The thing to do was go.

Life ain't for sissies, as Augustus might have said.

The vast plain was beautiful, but it had reduced Pea Eye to a scarred wreck.

Larry McMurtry

It's not the end of the world, Pea. Just pick up and keep going.

Seems like every time I make a plan something happens to change it. Well, life's a twisting stream, Augustus said.

Aurora could not recall that she had been precisely heartbroken - her heart had never had time to get focused exactly - but for several years thereafter she did feel that life was a comedown in some respects.

JOSH DEETS SERVED WITH ME 30 YEARS. FOUGHT IN 21 ENGAGEMENTS WITH THE COMMANCHE AND KIOWA. CHERFUL IN ALL WEATHERS, NEVER SHERKED A TASK. SPLENDID BEHAVIOUR.

The bad things that had happened to her had not killed her. They had not even killed the laughter in her.

Of course, children were endless work. They came when you didn't want them and had needs you didn't always want to meet. Worst of all they died no matter how much you loved them. The death of her own had frozen the hope inside her harder than the wintery ground. Her hopes had frozen hard and she vowed to keep it that way, and yet she hadn't. The hopes thawed.

I haven't planned, very much," July said honestly. "Seems like every time I make a plan something happens to change it.

Men have gotten by without legs. Lots of 'em lost legs in the war. You don't like to do nothing but sit on the porch and drink whiskey anyway. It don't take legs to do that.

It was a great annoyance to Billy that because of a long shit and a short nap he had lost his horse. But that was the truth of it and there was nothing he could do but limp along.

Among a broken people an unbroken man can only rarely be tolerated—he becomes a too-painful reminder of what the people as a whole had once been.

If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day— that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave.

If you get scalped, don't sit around yowling, either," Gus McCrae said. "People survive scalpings fine if they don't yowl.

losing weight. When we finish eating this horse I

He had done hard work all his life and was ready to stop, but he couldn't stop.