Quotes About Resilience

We laugh, that we may not cry.

you are never warmer than when you have been cold.

Chess looks like a zero-sum game; if one loses, the other wins—until a dog trots by and knocks over the table, spills the beer, and leaves you both worse off than before.

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future world depends.

Having a bottom line makes it easier to resist pressure and temptations of the moment.

The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment that it appears to be crushed.

Can we stand to gaze into the heart of our loss, the preciousness of what we are losing, and not look away?

Everyday, I think about dying. About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things.

Q I join the queue We move up nicely. I ask the lady in front What are we queuing for. 'To join another queue,' She explains. 'How pointless,' I say, 'I'm leaving.' She points To another long queue. 'Then you must get in line.' I join the queue. We move up nicely.

Darkie! Sambo! You must think we're dumb. Are we dumb? From the slaveships to world wars, to the underground and the hospitals, it's always been about the labour, never about the living. Cheap muscles and blood to build you an empire.

There is, in the circumstances of modern life, only one solution to the problem of resentment, and that is social mobility. The worst thing that the state can do is to create those traps – the poverty trap, the welfare trap, the education trap – which deprive people of the motives and the skills to improve their lot, and retain them in a state of permanent discontented dependence on a world that they cannot fully enter. In

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when don't want them to.

One of the disadvantages of traveling alone is that when you fall there is none to assist you.

When there is no real hope we must mint our own. If the coin be counterfeit it still may be passed.

I hunted rats and ate out of dustbins and saw my kittens killed and was hung by my tail and abused by wicked urchins," Graymalk said suddenly, "before the mistress found me. She was an orphan who'd lived on the streets. Her life had been even worse.

We all fall but do not all crawl.

we avoided their swarms by putting one foot in front of another without pause and making noises of our own. We didn't step on anybody who squashed.

A few drops of hope fell upon my heart.

All right. You wanted me," I stated, "and now you have me, heaven help you.

You ever kill yourself, Corwin?" "Not recently. How'd you manage it?

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