Quotes About Resilience

Hoi, hoi u embleer hrair! M'saion ule' hraka vair!

With a kind of wry envy, Hazel realized that Bigwig was actually looking forward to meeting the Efrafan assault. He knew he could fight and he meant to show it. He was not thinking of anything else. The hopelessness of their chances had no important place in his thoughts. Even the sound of the digging, clearer already, only set him thinking of the best way to sell his life as dearly as he could.

Your storm, Thlayli-rah. Use it.

Bigwig, as he had predicted, was getting his head bitten off.

I'm the one who ought to get angry," said Fiver. "But I'm no good at it, that's the trouble.

Think yourself lucky," said Bigwig, bleeding and cursing, "that I don't kill you.

Silflay hraka, u embleer rah," replied Bigwig.

even a small warren. This one had

Can you run?" said Hazel. "I think not. Why you pop-eyed, back-door saucer-scraper—

You've bitten through a bigger peg than this one I'm dragging.

And now, you bunch of mole-snouted, muck-raking, hutch-hearted sheep ticks, get out of my sight sharp.

El-ahrairah, tu pueblo no puede gobernar el mundo porque yo no lo he dispuesto así. Todo el mundo será tu enemigo, Príncipe con Mil Enemigos, y te matarán si te alcanzan. Pero antes tendrán que atraparte, a ti, que cavas y escuchas y corres, príncipe con la alarma presta. Sé astuto e ingenioso y tu pueblo nunca será destruido.

For birds and animals, as for poor men, winter is another matter.

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

Just now I was thinking that I'd died and had to come to life again, had to build up a life myself. Only the new edifice has to be built with the ruins of the old. Or rather, I feel like a tree that has been blasted level with the ground, with only the roots still living. Some even of the roots are dead, some I have to kill, the rest have to grow again somehow.

Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

You seek problems because you need their gifts.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

It's not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.

Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.

An author is a writer who didn't give up.

What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?

In half a century of challenge and learning and trial-and-error, each of us had struggled from hard times to a present lovely beyond our dreams.