Quotes About Resilience

Well, and what if we give in to our troubles at every step! We would be pitiable creatures indeed to be so weak, for is not a man's spirit given to him to rise above his misfortunes? As for our wants, they are many and unfilled, for who is so rich or compassionate as to supply them? Want is our companion from birth to death, familiar as the seasons or the earth, varying only in degree. What profit to bewail that which has always been and cannot change?

We live by our labors from one harvest to the next, there is no certain telling whether we shall be able to feed ourselves and our children, and if bad times are prolonged we know we must see the weak surrender their lives and this fact, too, is within our experience. In our lives there is no margin for misfortune.

She was no longer a child, to be cowed or forced into submission, but a grown woman with a definite purpose and an invincible determination.

If the ship sinks, we're going down with a cheer and a good drink under our belts anyway.

It is always tempting to try to shut out the suffering that is an inescapable part of the human condition, but once it has broken through the cautionary barricades we have erected against it, we can never see the world in the same way again.

You cannot be a hero unless you are prepared to give up everything; there is no ascent to the heights without a prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death. Throughout our lives, we all find ourselves in situations in which we come face to face with the unknown, and the myth of the hero shows us how we should behave. We all have to face the final rite of passage, which is death.

Yet despite my depression and my fear for the future, I could not quite succumb to the prevailing despair. The worst had happened, but that meant that I no longer had anything much to lose, and increasingly I found that quite liberating.

Everything that goes up must come down: that is a law of life, so to strengthen your enemy by yielding to him would actually hasten his decline. The

Qur'an insisted tirelessly. "If one is patient in adversity and forgives—this, behold, is indeed something to set one's heart upon.

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.

Msabu's bleeding. She does not have this ox. This lion is hungry. He does not have this ox. This wagon is heavy. It doesn't have this ox. God is happy, msabu. He plays with us.

Bruises fade and bones heal, but a scorched heart may take years to mend.

The strong do as they will while the weak suffer what they must.

It is a woman's burden to suffer the machinations and destruction of men.

Can you not see that we still might win? We lost a battle, not a war.

Once you've spent a winter buried in the Alpine snow foraging for food, it's hard to complain over heat.

It took all of her moral strength not to kick him—just a little—while he was so conveniently at her feet.

we are all wont to make mistakes, but if we learn from each trick, each error, and refuse to allow it to happen again, then the experience is not a loss, but a lifelong gain. Our pride may sting for the moment, but our future will be the better for it.

Sometimes you have to grab life by the horns and ride it,even if it tries to throw you.

There's always hope. And when that fails, there's guile and wile.

Life is full of surprises and not all of them are good.

I don't need a hero. I was blessed with a large amount of common sense, which is of infinitely more use than a man.

The bed was lumpy, the fire smoked so badly I was forced to extinguish it or die, then I froze to death the rest f the night because the blanket was so thin. That's a shame. It was right comfortable in the tack room. I've a cot and a neat little pot-bellied stove. Dougal sent a thoughful look at the barn. Can you put up another cot?