Quotes About Resilience

How much strength must one people have? And for how long must they have it?

You can't insist on a life. A life insists on you.

Grief is an eroding wind. After grief has blown through, there is just the bedrock of a person.

squinting thousand-yard stare of a person who has lived both in bright sunshine and among crocodiles and hippos his whole life.

Strong people didn't like witnesses to their weak moments.

She'd done harder things in her life, she could do this. She had to.

A St. Louis oncology nurse quoted Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl to States News Service in 2012: " 'What is to give light must endure burning.' I think people who care for others understand. Caregiving is painful.

I figure I'll win the fight in twenty years or so anyways when I end up with a decent life and their unemployed and living at home.

He will increase in strength and honor by struggling with adversity, which he will convert into prosperity.

Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.

What I've loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You've broken it with a word, so I must die.

remember that what has once been done may be done again.

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.

Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, Do your worst, for I will do mine! and you will be remembered forever.

I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)

There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will not doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive. Do you intend to fight back at fate, Valentine? That's what I came here to ask you. -Maximilien Morrel

Return to the world still more brilliant because of your former sorrows.

Ah, said the jailer, do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.

God is always the last resource.

Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed.