Quotes About Resilience

Sorrow for a person is different—one can't put that behind one. But one can get over shock and horror by just not letting your mind dwell on it all the time.

I have learned to save myself useless emotion

for a minute her good-natured blue eyes were hard and sharp; she was the female fighting for existence—"that

Life is very trying.

Real grief is real. It makes you feel awful but it does something to you. I mean, it works it out like perspiration.

Well, well. I know all we medicos hand these things out freely nowadays. Nobody tells young women who can't sleep to count sheep, or get up and eat a biscuit, or write a couple of letters and then go back to bed. Instant remedies, that's what people demand nowadays. Sometimes I think it's a pity we give them to them. You've got to learn to put up with things in life. All very well to stuff a comforter into a baby's mouth to stop it crying. Can't go on doing that all a person's life.

Because people like living, don't they? So do flies. Even if you're old and in pain and can just crawl out in the sun. Julian says those people like living even more than young strong people do. It's harder, he says, for them to die, the struggle's greater. I like living myself—not just being happy and enjoying myself and having a good time. I mean living—waking up and feeling, all over me, that I'm there—ticking over.

Anne's awfully sensitive,' said Rhoda. 'And she's bad about—well, facing things. If anything's upset her, she'd just rather not talk about it,

My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly despairing, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Elephants are quite enough.

Never give in! That's my motto. Don't think of trouble and trouble won't come!

Ungdomen är hård, ungdomen är stark, ungdomen är mäktig – ja, och grym! Och en sak till – ungdomen är sårbar.

When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope.

The world is becoming a difficult place to live in—except for the strong.

move, hoping to save itself by its immobility.

Jangan pikirkan lagi masa lalu! Berpalinglah pada masa yang akan datang! Apa yang telah terjadi, sudahlah. Kepahitan tidak akan mengubahnya." - Hercule Poirot, Death on the Nile, page 93

She began laughing wildly again. Dr. Armstrong strode forward. He raised his hand and struck her a flat blow on the cheek. She gasped, hiccupped—and swallowed. She stood motionless a minute, then she said: "Thank you … I'm all right now.

we can win the war—make no mistake about that—but only if we don't lose it first. And the danger of losing it comes, not from outside—not from the might of Germany's bombers, not from her seizure of neutral countries and fresh vantage points from which to attack—but from within.

To have known, at close quarters, what absolute evil means, is to be armoured against what life can do to you.

Geef het op. Richt u op de toekomst. Wat gebeurd is, is gebeurd en bitterheid kan daar niets aan veranderen.

You can't really spare anyone anything,' she said. 'Things always have to be faced sooner or later. And therefore it had better be sooner.

One must take the downs with the ups, my friend.

I admired Elsa Greer because she had guts, because she could fight, because she stood up to her tormentors and never quailed! But I admired Caroline Crale because she didn't fight, because she retreated into her world of half lights and shadows. She was never defeated because she never gave battle.