Quotes About Resilience

Going to prison is pretty common. Coming out a better person than when you went in, that's never been done.

Hard" isn't the same as "mean".

If love could die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard

People won't let you live the way you want to, but if you're strong enough or quick enough, at least you don't have to live the way they want you to. I live, though, no matter what.

Life is a fight, but not everyone's a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne

He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.

People won't let you live the way you want to, but if you're strong enough or quick enough, at least you don't have to live the way they want you to.

Ship sinks or you falls overboard, all swimming's going to do is

Ship sinks or you falls overboard, all swimming's going to do is make it take longer to drown.

My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.

If trouble is coming, don't turn your back, because that's when it's gonna stab. Best to meet it with a grin. That way, you can see what's coming.

I think we are, by our own closed-door admissions, a fractious untrusting tribe unified only because we are besieged by larger forces.

Let's drink to not being worse off. We have known better days.

Conqueror's glory be damned. I hadn't even managed to wash my hair in a week.

Hiro said after a moment. "It hurts." "No, it's fine. It will heal quickly." "Not your hand. The music." Angelica hesitated. Had she understood him? She said, "It does hurt. And it doesn't. Maybe like all beautiful things.

Unpleasant things are like the rain: sometimes they visit us, but there is no point in worrying about them while the sun shines.

He hardly ate anything, and only stayed on his feet thanks to his lunacy. But that was a strong stick to lean on. He was not dying anytime soon.

Unpleasant things are like rain: sometimes they visit us, but there's no point in worrying about them while the sun shines. And anyway, you can take shelter from the rain, and many things that seem nasty from far away are not so terrible at all seen close up.

You might almost think that the forest is itself to blame for the people leaving its midst, because it behaves like a conqueror, spreading out in the footsteps of its former master.

No one wants to suffer. But that is the fate of each. And some suffer more. Not necessarily of their own volition. It's not about to enduring the suffering. It's about how you endure it.

Well, we're afeared. And what of it? Do we sit down and weep and tremble? Life must go on. And what will be, will be. What is destined can't be avoided, in any case.

It's good to feel fear. If you feel fear it means there's something to be feared, so be vigilant. Fear doesn't have to be overcome. Just don't yield to it. And you can learn from it.

You catch fear," Ciri repeated proudly, brushing her ashen fringe from her forehead. "Didn't you know? Even when something bad happens to you, you have to go straight back to that piece of equipment or you get frightened. And if you're frightened you'll be hopeless at the exercise. You mustn't give up. Geralt said so.