Quotes About Resilience

The greatest storms on our Earth break not in nature but in our minds!

It is the ant, not the lion, which the elephant fears.

Fate is cruel but maybe not random. Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and gravel to it.

Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these.

However much grief I carried, I liked the way my life was tending, these bright new directions. It's only human, to mourn and to reach toward forwardness at once.

Forgiving ourselves and learning from our inevitable mistakes transforms failure from a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

Still, he was angry--that particular anger of humans defied by the persistence of nature.

But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity.

Ah, what broken creatures we are, and how we endure.

There is something mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral part of its very being.

I suspect each of us uses the past to prop up the bruised present. It's a clumsy try for the comfort of normality.

I've always thought that the best moments can come from the worst times.

In the long run one gets used to anything.

Oh, people get used to so many things, " said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance.

Keep calm. You have the forest in your blood.

First we are tested on our strengths, then we our strengths are tested

And scars will lighten, they'll pale unless you keep rubbing at them...wait long enough, they'll fade.

Like a gardener I believe that what goes down must come up.

When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

If you watch how nature deals with adversity continually renewing itself you can't help but learn.

Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. ... Forests decay harvests perish flowers vanish but grass is immortal.

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.