Quotes About Resilience

People will use anything that comes to hand when they're fighting for their lives—or for someone else's.

You're only twenty-four," he said. "You have plenty of scars for someone your age.

Since it looked like this was going to be my new normal, I might not be using the straightest ruler when it came to measuring crazy.

She's not a monkey fuck, and she is not prey," Simon said, his voice a low, threatening rumble. "She is Meg.

There's no room in him yet for something as small as anger.

Some, like Lorne, who ran the Three Ps—the shop for paper, printing, and postage—went on as they had before.

Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.

After some time I fell into a lingering sickness like a consumption, together with lameness, which correction I saw the Lord sent to humble and try me and do me good: and it was not altogether ineffectual.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." [ Meditations Divine and Moral ]

If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant.

And time brings down what is both strong and tall.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.

How oft with disappointment have I met, When I on fading things my hopes have set?

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

If you would have your son to walk honorably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

Because the road is rough and long, Shall we despise the skylark's song?

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

A Chinese proverb reminds us: You cannot prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.

Girls are cruelest to themselves. Someone like Emily Brontë, who remained a girl all her life despite her body as a woman, had cruelty drifted up in all the cracks of her like spring snow.

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.