Quotes About Resilience

It doesn't matter how slowly you go so long as you don't stop.

It is only when the cold season comes that we know the pine and cypress to be evergreens.

A man whose strength gives out collapses along the course. In your case you set the limits beforehand.

Give me a strong back, over a soft heart.

She'd stood by that creed. No softness, because the world wasn't soft; lots of laughter, because if you were in on the joke, the joke couldn't be on you; And no wanting what you couldn't take, because the world never gave. Or so she'd thought.

The toughest role is real life.

Tears are nothing to be ashamed of at all. -Grandma Shaw

When feelings get so string they're woven into my bones, I can't talk about them without crying.

Virginia was working in the garden, and her husband Leonard called out for her to come inside, that Hitler was just about to speak on the radio. Virginia refused. "I am planting irises," she said, "and they will be here long after Hitler is gone." And they are. You can go see the irises at their house, still blooming.

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer." —ANTHONY TROLLOPE, The Bertrams But

It cannot rain but it pours." —JONATHAN SWIFT Oh

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart." —DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN

The harder it has been for a son of earth to win freedom, The more mightily does he stir his fellow man.

Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.

He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.

you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse

All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.

Carry the fire.

Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.

Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.

What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?

Hard people make hard times. I've seen the meanness of humans till I don't know why god ain't put out the sun and gone away.

Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.