Quotes About Resilience

ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.

I can't explain it. It's what turns you to powder, being ground between what you can't do and what you must do. You just turn to dust.

A great novel is the record of how a character fights with death.

Don't give up. I don't think any other advice works. Writing is one of those things where you just have to do it. There will be far more people to discourage you than to encourage you. The time never comes to you, the inspiration doesn't come to you. You just sit down and do it." – James Lee Burke

Sometimes writing a novel feels about as rewarding as turning a spit in the fires of hell.

When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb with a pencil and a ten-cent notebook, and start the whole thing all over again." – Preston Sturges

I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like molten lead

If were all going to hell in a handbasket, we might as well make it a party on the way down.

Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself. It

If we're all going to hell in a handbasket, we might as well make it a party on the way down

We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own.

The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.

He glanced at Artison. "They couldn't even kill you if they tried." "What are you talking about? Why not?" "Because," Larria whispered, "You're already dead.

I'm useless. I quit everything I try.' 'That doesn't make you useless. It means you haven't quit on finding the thing that's right for you.

What makes a system successful is its ability to recognize losers and kill them quickly. Or, rather, what makes a system successful is its ability to generate lots of losers and then to recognize them as such and kill them off. Sometimes the messiest approach is the wisest.

pair of Jacks. Not much of a hand." "We'll play what we're dealt. That's what we always do.

Compassion is not weakness. Enduring is not living. And belligerence is not strength.

It's all right," she said, a sad smile forming on her lips. "I have everything I need.

If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.

He had a picture in his mind of Studs Lonigan courageously telling life and the world to stick itself up it's old tomato.

Stick to your teaching, Miss Alcott. You can't write.

He is being nibbled to death by ducks. --More Later, Less the Same

Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.