Quotes About Resilience

Telling the story of who she was, and then realizing that she was no longer the same person. That she had made a mistake, and the mistake had changed her, and now she would not make the mistake again because she had become someone else, someone less afraid, someone more compassionate.

It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.

Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone.

He had lots of deaths, but that was OK, games were like that, you died a lot until you got the hang of it

The devil takes his victories," the man replied, "wherever men of God lose heart, and leave the field to him.

Sickness and healing are in every heart. Death and deliverance are in every hand.

The bones are hard and by themselves seem dead and stony, but by rooting into and pulling against the skeleton, the rest of the body carries out all the motions of life.

Endurance, after all, was a kind of victory; a kind of heroism, too.

That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.

There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will teach you how to destroy and conquer.

People get used to anything, if it just goes on.

We are who we are. When changes come, we start with what we are right then, and then we work to try to become whoever we need to be.

History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.

The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.

I'm just saying things never get so bad we can't do something to make them better.

Love and serve the sources of your strength.

There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy show you where you are weak. Only the enemy shows you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. – Mazer Rackham

No point in getting emotional about anything. Being emotional didn't help with survival. What mattered was to learn everything, analyze the situation, choose a course of action, and then move boldly. Know, think, choose, do.

You're not crazy. You're not evil. But you can't stop.

You get used to being naked, that's the first thing that Ivan discovered. Crashing through thick brush with branches snagging at your bare skin, you stop worrying about who's looking and and spend your time trying to keep yourself from being flayed alive. He got shy again when they entered the village, but once he decided simply to let the gawkers gawk, he found himself much more interested in what he was seeing than what they were.

You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive

He felt like part of himself had been taken away, an inward prop that was holding up his courage and confidence.

No point in getting emotional about anything. Being emotional didn't help with survival. What mattered was to learn everything, analyze the situation, choose a course of action, and then move boldly. Know, think, choose, do. There was no place in that list for "feel.

Maybe knowing about craziness means you don't have to fall for it.