Quotes About Resilience

I eschewed shortcuts, for flashy shadow spanning helluns also have their price and I did not want to be all whacked out when I arrived.

Something big and batlike swooped through the tunnel of his lights and was gone. He ignored its passage. Five minutes later it made a second pass, this time much closer, and he fired a magnesium flare. A black shape, perhaps forty feet across, was illuminated, and he gave it two five-second bursts from the fifty-calibers. It fell to the ground and did not return again. To the squares, this was Damnation Alley. To Hell Tanner, this was still the parking lot.

And the Scythe of Time has no power in this corner of the heart.

I spat sand so I would not choke when I laughed. Hell, we make our own what ifs. I had better things to do than what could have happened.

When there is no real hope we must mint our own

A prisoner of he who has already slain you once, he thought. No doubt near to his place of power, in a cage built just for me. Bad. Bad. There

You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it's all a question of balance.

the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair

The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake

Please always remember, the secret of survival is to embrace change, and to adapt. To quote, All things fall and are built again, and those that build them are gay.

The lives of the poor are rich in symbols.

You cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair

Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize...

In those days, continued Ishvar, it seemed to me that that was all one could expect in life. A harsh road strewn with sharp stones and, if you were lucky, a little grain. And later? Later I discovered there were different types of roads. And a different way of walking on each.

The secret of survival is to embrace change and to adapt. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.

Losing, and losing again, is the very basis of the life process, till all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence.

But since the world is imperfect, we must put blinders on the senses.

the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair, to embrace change.

Where humans were concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure; and sorrow, for the hopelessness of it all.

You see, you cannot draw lines and compartments, and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.

Rohinton Mistry

All things fall and are built again, and those that build them again are gay