Quotes About Resilience

Trying to build my dreams with what I have now, it's like building a forty-five story house with thirty-four bricks. (DoubleDuce.)

Sometimes a place to work, or a place to relax--even if only for an hour--is all you need. That, and good friends. Without those things, the city will break you into a million tiny pieces. But what in the world could be harder to find?

Stop it, and give yourself a chance.

Instead of throwing traps into

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between rubble and sovereign sun all water consumed all wailing subdued since dawn time this land remains the same: the open wound of Africa

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken

There are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman

The way black women say girl can be magical. Frankly, I have no solid beliefs about the survival of consciousness after physical death. But if it's going to happen I know what I want to see after my trek toward the light. I want to see a black woman who will smile and say, Girl....

Prisoners, slaves, women and children, the sick, weak, disabled, animals, the earth itself – all were fair game for the cruel sport of those who had power. It was wrong, it was evil, but it was a fact of life.

Good things happen slowly and bad things happen fast. Those were comforting words, and they comfort me today.

Once I stood in line behind a young woman ordering coffee who remarked to her friend that she didn't yet have a set of beliefs, and I imagined catalogs from which one could order such sets, like furniture, beliefs that wouldn't collapse under one's full weight, big sturdy reliable sideboards of belief. As for me, I have learned what I can do and what I can't. I know my limits. That's all I have to go on, but it's better than nothing.

the last several years my life had begun to feel shapeless, like underwear with the elastic gone, the days down around my ankles.

Suffering is the finest teacher," said an old friend long ago. "It teaches you details.

There is a high cost of living to be paid by a Jew. He has to be exalted in order to be normal in a world that is neither propitious for nor sympathetic to his survival.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

You can't make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

Life is hard but so very beautiful

I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.