Quotes About Resilience

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

The only difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is the way we address the rocks cast into our path.

If I am killed I can die but once. But to live in constant dread is to die over and over again.

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 is 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.

For those who wish to consider [...] that it may be necessary to expend a great deal of time and effort to reach a goal that is not only intangible but also not gratifying in the sense of providing ultimate tranquility, I respectfully submit this book.

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

It makes me sad, sad inside, to see a warrior without his pride.

Ridicule is nothing to be scared of.

Solo hace falta un mal día para sumir al hombre mas cuerdo del mundo en la locura! Así de lejos esta el mundo de donde estoy yo, a solo un mal día

Hayat satranç gibidir. On parçan? kaybedip yine de kazanabilirsin...

Wine grapes are as sensitive to assaults as authors.

That's right: No one cares! People have troubles of their own! It's okay. That doesn't mean you shouldn't do it; it means you should do it, somehow, for its own sake, without illusions. Just write, just live, and don't care too much yourself. No one cares. It's just banter.

What made me sad just then was the new knowledge that things changed, and there was nothing you could do about it. In a way, that was a Parisian emotion too.

Quote by Robert, a garçon who accepted a 'fat envelope' to leave the Balzar: Anyway it is only in moments of crisis that we find lucidity about ourselves—though only after the crisis is over. Still, that's enough lucidity for anyone. Anyway, it is all the lucidity that life will give you. The crucial thing is that is was _our choice._ We made it. We _chose_ to leave.

one-eyed people who used their feet to cover their heads. A

Primo Levi of his experience at Auschwitz. "But they

The Irish, he told Lloyd George, were "like nothing so much as a lot of frightened children who dread being thrashed.

every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

You can either do what your integrity tells you to do, or niftily find your way around the obstacles life throws in your path.

Laurence Chaderton, the moderate Puritan leader, once paused after two hours of a Cambridge sermon. The entire congregation stood up and shouted, 'For God's sake go on!' He gave them another hour.

It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.

I am rubber but you are blue. Whatevers you are saying bounces off of me and I do not remember the rest.