Quotes About Resilience

I will know that only those with inferior ability can always be at their best, and I am not inferior. There will be days when I must constantly struggle against forces which would tear me down. Those such as despair and sadness are simple to recognize but there are others which approach with a smile and the hand of friendship and they can also destroy me. Against them, too, I must never relinquish control—

Failure will never overtake you if your determination to succeed is strong enough.

insurmountable

Today my old skin has become as dust. I will walk tall among men and they will know me not, for today I am a new man, with a new life.

when one's avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward.

Failure no longer will be my payment for struggle.

El tazón roto se convierte en espada aguda. Todas las cosas que se han roto se vuelven espadas.

My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one.

Whenever you come to a fork in the road, always choose the harder path, otherwise the path of least resistance will be chosen for you.

Oh and finding happiness in the small things, my dear, that's really nothing to brag about - it's the last consolation of those whose imaginations have failed them.

Bad things happen wherever they get a mind to, but good things don't happen at all unless you go looking for them.

Joy leaks out when there are enough cracks.

Jesus meant us to ast God to hep us stand the pain, not beg Him to take the pain away.

There ain't no feelin' in the world like takin' on somebody wilted and near bout gone, and you do what you can, and then all a-sudden the pore thang starts to put out new growth and git well.

Jesus said take up your cross and follow Me, but He didn't ast us to go out and nail ourselves to a board.

At one point, trying to explain her unhappiness, Sanna was to say to Miss Love, I read some psychology books in college. Everything that's supposed to warp a child happened to me. Miss Love, who had been raped as an adolescent, replies, Everything that could warp a child happened to me, too. But understanding that doesn't help. It's interesting but it doesn't help. I figure that what you do with your life now is all that counts. I try not to look back.

There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

When Love and Life first meet, a radiant thing is born, without a shade. When the roads begin to roughen, when the shades begin to darken, when the days are hard, and the nights cold and long—then it begins to change.

Throw a puppy into the water. If it swims, well. If it sinks, well. But do not tie a rope around its throat and weight it with a brick and then assert its incapacity to keep afloat.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is battle slain Can never rise to fight again.

He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day...

Heros aren't defined by the way they die but how they live.

For better or worse, most people's lives seem to turn out rather differently from what they had expected