Quotes About Resilience

Alan Jacobson

match for what looked like MAC-10s the bank robbers were toting, but what can you do? Sometimes you're just

He's defiant, even when challenged by law enforcement.

Religion must be defended not by killing but by dying, not by violence but by patience.

I must warn you," he says. Whatever persecutions the Christians have experienced, and whether it has been Jews or pagans or heretics who have mistreated them, Christians must not avenge themselves. Cyprian places himself among them: "We should not hasten to revenge their pain with an angry speed.

But the best managers expect their people to make mistakes, and instead of replacing staff constantly, they recognize that it is more efficient to teach people how to cope with their failures and learn from their

Fears are educated into us," Dr. Karl Menninger once wrote, "and they can, if we wish, be educated out.

The crippled child is not conscience of the handicap implied by his useless legs. Though often inconvenient or annoying, but he is confident that it will never prevent him from doing what he wants to do or being whatever he wishes to be. If he considers them a handicap its because he has been told they are. Children make no distinction between the one who's lame or the one who has use of all his limbs.

I will find my way I can go the distance I'll be there someday If I can be strong I know every mile will be worth my while I would go most anywhere to feel like I belong

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.

I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing in the world worth having. we must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.

No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Equanimity is a quality of being centered in yourself, though at the same time being exquisitely sensitive to the forces that are at work all around, or else you will be vulnerable to being tossed around by the sorts of unexpected waves that crash in on every life.

As long as the candle is still burning, it is still possible to accomplish and to mend!

After the greatest clouds, the sun.

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.

For who can stop the heart from breaking?

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.