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Quotes About Resilience

The real teacher is endurance.
~ Lawrence Durrell
This is nothing of medical interest — a small chill. Diseases are not interested in those who want to die.' And then with one of those characteristic swerves of association, like a swallow turning in mid-air she added, 'Oh! Nessim, I have always been so strong. Has it prevented me from being truly loved?
~ Lawrence Durrell
In her there was a pliancy, a resilience which was Oriental — a passion to serve.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control.
~ Cole Porter
Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
~ Gordon Lightfoot
What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
~ Seneca the Younger
I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.
~ Luther Vandross
Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.
~ James Taylor
There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.
~ Kate Seredy
When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad, I simply remember my favorite things and then I don't feel so bad.
~ Oscar Hammerstein II
Giving up on life is easier than going through the hard times to find the good.
~ Joseph Parker
When you feel like you've had it up to here, and you're mad enough to scream, but you're sad enough to tear, that's rock bottom.
~ Eminem
Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.
~ Nancy Mitford
I learned to practice smiling when I'm feeling sad, you know?
~ Yuna
The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
You gotta look for the good in the bad, the happy in your sad, the gain in your pain, and what makes you grateful not hateful.
~ Karen Salmansohn
The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.
~ Nelson Mandela
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.
~ Emeli Sande
The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.
~ Kate Chopin
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
~ Ovid
You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.
~ James Dashner
I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal.
~ Loung Ung
Sometimes to realize you were well, someone must come along and hurt you.
~ Perry Farrell