Quotes About Resilience

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

You'll ache. And you're going to love it. It will crush you. And you're still going to love all of it. Doesn't it sound lovely beyond belief?

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places.

Never be daunted

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

You'll ache. And you're going to love it. It will crush you. And you're still going to love all of it.

You roll back to me.

War is not won by victory.

He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.

But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time...

You don't have to destroy me. Do you? ...

I was blown up while we were eating cheese.

Man is not made for defeat.

But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.

By guts I mean, grace under pressure