Quotes About Resilience

Orson Scott Card

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one's heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one's heart to stone.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Hearts Live By Being Wounded

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

Everything is going to be fine in the end. If it's not fine it's not the end.

You told me you had destroyed it. I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.

A burnt child loves the fire.

What is done is done. What is past is past. You call yesterday the past? What has the actual lapse of time got to do with it? It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

I am completely penniless, and absolutely homeless. Yet there are worse things in the world than that.

I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me

The rim of a tightening lung.

We have always absorbed our own disintegration.

So often, thought Rami, the ordinary can save us.

one of the principal qualities of pain is that it demands to be defeated first, then understood.

There is nothing more substantial to place against the cruelty of the world than language.

all walls were destined to fall, no matter what.