Quotes About Resilience

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

When flowing water...meets with obstacles on its path, a blockage in its journey, it pauses. It increases in volume and strength, filling up in front of the obstacle and eventually spilling past it... Do not turn and run, for there is nowhere worthwhile for you to go. Do not attempt to push ahead into the danger... emulate the example of the water: Pause and build up your strength until the obstacle no longer represents a blockage.

I mention all this to all of you for a reason. I want to make sure all of you—especially the more wimpy, compliant, and fuddle-brained of your lot—get the message here: DON'T LET THE BASTARDS WEAR YOU DOWN

Nothing can erase the pain of losing someone you love you carry it with you for the rest of your life, however ever long that might be. The best you can hope for is that over time the wounds begin to heal, but no matter how strong we are no matter how hard we fight the scars always stay with us.

A system more ingeniously contrived, first for the debasement, and then for the continuance in that debasement, of an entire people cannot easily be imagined.

Dion, "A Sicker Fall River Eases Its Pain By Getting High," Fall River Herald-News, October 4, 2015.

Secret #24 While some people run fast toward Gold Medals, many others run even faster from German Shepherds.

New life insists. It does not debate. It simply appears, trembling and hungry, and will not be denied.

No garden is without its weeds

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

Abused patience turns to fury.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Two things a man should never be angry at what he can help, and what he cannot help.

But knowledge to their eyes her ample pageRich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll;Chill penury repress'd their noble rage,And froze the genial current of the soul.

The generous spark extinct revive, Teach me to love and to forgive, Exact my own defects to scan, What others are, to feel, and to know myself a Man. - Hymn to Adversity

I decided that there was perhaps no ash quite so cold as the one left by an unrealized ambition...

'Tis a lesson you should heed,Try, try again.If at first you don't succeed,Try, try again.

In the frantaic world of today, with everything in a ceaseless uproar like a forest in a hurricane, it's a good thing to see that your roots go a long way down.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfilment of that hope never entirely removes.