Quotes About Resilience

It wasn't all bad," Skulduggery responded. "It gave me time to catch up on some screaming.

Because I had gone through the same thing. I had tasted the darkness." "You'd 'tasted the darkness', had you?" "I'm allowed to have some poetry in my life, Valkyrie." "'Tasted the darkness, I swear to God... What, did you have a darkness sandwich, or was it a whole plate? What did you have for dessert? Was it pretentiousness? Did you have a bowl of pretentiousness for dessert?

As Bonaparte would sigh centuries later, it takes very few defeats to unmake a self-made man.

This sort of knockdown or capsize happens surprisingly often to small boats in bad storms. They usually survive, although their crews' nervous systems are never the same afterward. It has never happened to me. If it ever does, I'll take the old sailor's traditional retirement: walk inland carrying an oar until someone says, "What's that?," buy a chicken farm on that very spot, and never move.

I became as hard as whipcord, but with a brain like cottonwool.

All the evil in the world is powerless against intelligence and courage.

he himself would have fought back. Not easy when you're naked,

The line from psychologists is, if you've seen it before, it hasn't killed you yet.

It begs for a gospel of perseverance through inevitable failure... There is no antidote to the chaos of creative markets. Only the brute doggedness to endure it.

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

I shall unlearn feeling, unlearn my gift. That is greater and harder than what passes there for life.

because the fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world, in spite of History.

Plan for success; prepare for failure. And the universe doesn't care either way.

whether it concerns the things which are in our control, or those which are not; and, if it concerns anything not in our control, be prepared to say that it is nothing to you.

Going into a game of tennis: If you go in determined to win, and then your opponent is playing better than you, you're probably going to get anxious and feel that you're failing. Whereas if you go in determined to play as well as you can, then it doesn't matter if your opponent is a bit better than you or if they start to win: you're not failing.

And sometimes in life, that's all you ever need. A crisp but subtle line.

Brown, in retrospect, was a serious disappointment, but if we can learn the lessons it did not intend to teach, it will not go down as a defeat.

My third maxim was to try always to master myself rather than fortune and change my desires rather than changing how things stand in the world.

I undertook to conquer myself rather than fortune , and to alter my desires rather than change the order of the world , and to accustom myself to believe that nothing is entirely in our power except our own thoughts .

My principle has ever been to attempt to overcome myself rather than fortune and to change my desires rather than the natural order.

Even tho' he struggled with life he kept elbowing his way through the crowd of envy, even tho' it felt like the weight of the world was on his shoulders he would never allow his head to hang to the ground; in a world lost in misery. -MillYentei

He became the Rose that struggled throughout life that was never meant to make it; but he grew out of difficult times in this unmerciful world like a rose struggling to grow out of the cracks in the rock-hard concrete. He became inspired by the Great Makaveli.... -MillYentei

My God; I might as well smile today because it seems as if the red clay we have been created from "Adamah" / "mother-earth" isn't changing for the greater good. -MillYentei

Peeps stay solid and protect yourself and your family by any means necessary, there's shady people out here and a rotten Society, this world and life we live there will always be some heartbreaking things that you will see in the future that's going to make you lose control of your emotions and break down and cry, keep your head up and don't go off your rocker. -MillYentei _The Gorilla Roar!