Quotes About Resilience

the Basil Spence Syndrome. When Coventry Cathedral was going up and in the public eye, he went through a lean period when he wasn't offered any jobs at all because people thought he wouldn't have time for anything else.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

you can't hide from a hurricane under a beach umbrella

Nobody wants trouble,' said Chandni. 'Trouble just find us.

She was fifteen years old and her life pinched her like an ill-fitting shoe.

When her gun was empty she put it down and killed the last man with a typewriter, the carriage-return bell jingling cheerfully while she smashed in his skull.

We'll be all right!" she said. "We'll be all right now! Let's go up and find out whom we've hitched a lift with!

You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "But we're alive and together and we're going to be all right.

That's impossible,' said Fever, Engineerishly.

But that's what bravery is, my dear. The overcoming of fear. If you're not afraid, it doesn't count.

The faith instinct…simply cannot be killed. That 'simply cannot' means that we simply cannot not live—cannot live as if life were meaningless, without purpose; as if life were merely material or mechanical or not spiritual. Such an effort in its deadly futility represents a historical ending time, a time just before the faith instinct will show itself again.

But who is set up for the impossible that is going to happen? Who is set up for tragedy and the incomprehensibility of suffering? Nobody. The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Problems are there to be solved. How dull life would be without them.

Great is he, who conquers the frightful. Sublime is he, who, while succumbing to it, fears it not'.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction….Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being who you are." Everything happens for a reason. Everything has a purpose.

When there's no escaping the heat of the cold, the only way to combat it is to accept it.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

She had responded to the loss of her husband, to poverty, to disease, and to family cruelty with boldness and ingenuity, by opening herself to others, especially to her children and her Church, pouring into these precious vessels her knowledge, hope, and devotion.

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.