Quotes About Resilience

Don't take life so serious, son...it ain't no how permanent. --Porky Pine, June 19-24, 1950

Yowpee! I pulls my brandin' irons an' comes out a-bitin' the dust—a reg'lar Hoopalong Cassowary!

My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite,I laugh at what you call dissolution,And I know the amplitude of time.

I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there.

A batter'd, wreck'd old man,Thrown on this savage shore, far from home,Pent by the sea and dark rebellious brows, twelve dreary months,Sore, stiff with many toils, sicken'd and nigh to death,I take my way along the island's edge,Venting a heavy heart.

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

The sun melts butter and hardens clay. Blessed are the troubled who allow their tribulation to soften their heart to repentance. Notice how often God uses our children to get our attention. Christianity is a religion of rescue. It is designed for the desperate.

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.

Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.

I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

The greatest please in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

The greatest plesure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

El mejor placer en la vida es hacer lo que la gente te dice que no puedes hacer.

Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

It is only for those without hope that hope is given.

All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

The most remarkable observation one can make about this interface of exilic circumstance and scriptural resource is this: Exile did not lead Jews in the Old Testament to abandon faith or to settle for abdicating despair, nor to retreat to privatistic religion. On the contrary, exile evoked the most brilliant literature and the most daring theological articulation in the Old Testament.