Quotes About Resilience

It's OK to feel pain and experience it. I'm not trying to fix myself. My suffering has given me so much.

One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.

When something happens to you, suffering doesn't begin. Suffering begins at the instant you label a bad thing - as something that is wrong.

I spent 51 years under apartheid. I don't imagine suffering. I know it.

I've seen my own blood and broken a few bones. I've been hit, which isn't an entirely bad thing, as at least you have a glimpse of the suffering endured by the people you are photographing. And in a sense, crumbling empires and war have been with me all my life.

I think Detroit deserves a comedy that's not about suffering.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.

I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.

Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages.

There is some suffering that awaits us all.

Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?

To live in the midst of suffering, which we do, we do, amid distress, and to keep some equilibrium in the midst of that - that would be happiness enough.

I wouldn't have really committed myself to any kind of spiritual lifestyle, I don't think, if I had not endured great suffering. I think that's the case with a lot of people.

History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.

Many Russia experts note the deep and sad capacity of the Russian people for suffering.

The regrets I have are strong enough that I wouldn't share 'em. I think that you can't live without suffering some.

Musicians keep playing when the lights go out, when people are suffering, confused, or angry.

Pain - that is what life is about, isn't it? Suffering with moments of reprieve.

Suffering does not change its face.

To those out there who are suffering from cancer, facing adversity, I want you to know that your will to live can make all the difference in the world.

I haven't been very good about dealing with disappointment. I suffer it, and then when that suffering becomes a kind of predation, then it's gone. Because the disappointment is not always realistic.

The ox suffers, the cart complains.