Quotes About Resilience

Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.

I've been wondering lately whether fear is necessary for survival, whether it sharpens the senses during storms of uncertainity. Or is it, as I suspect, merely another variant of weakness?

Do people remember only what they can endure, or distort memories until they can endure them?

People do what they have to in this life. We try to get from one end of it to the other with dignity and with honor. We do the best we can.

But, luckily, he kept his wits and his purple crayon.

I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.

All of which was to say that the sketches I'd written over the years about the absurdity and arbitrariness of beauty standards for women had arisen not from my clear-eyed renunciation of them but from my resentment at their hold on me.

But sometimes speaking is so hard! It's like standing still, then sprinting.

Maybe I have always been, as Vi would subsequently accuse me, someone who creates obstacles for myself than looks around in surprise, wondering where they came from.

If I'll never know how much this was my path because of fate and how much because I willed it, the question is less important than that I made it across. Now other women know they, too, can make it, and not because I or anyone else tells them. They know because they've seen it happen.

I will not be the one it happens to - this is what we all believe, what we must believe to make our way in the world each day. Someone else. Not me. But every once in a while it is you, or someone close enough that it might as well be you. People to whom a terrible thing has never happened trust fate, the notion that what's meant to be will be; the rest of us know better.

It's good on the other side, but it's good on your side too. Enjoy it there. The loneliness is harder, and the loneliness is the biggest part, but some things are easier.

Mark Twain say something about courage being the mastery of fear rather than the absence of fear?

Maybe life isn't about the absence of embarrassment, it's about the mastery of embarrassment.

In situations that make you nervous, do your best and proceed; others before you have also been nervous.

There were many terrible moments, a lifetime of terrible moments really, which is not the same as terrible lifetime.

The Wisconsin land, scraped and rearranged by glaciers, accosted by tornadoes, drenched and dried out and drenched again—it didn't care what I had done.

It's remarkable, isn't it, Mr. Bennet said, that for decades at a time, I've stayed alive without your daily instructions?

It falls to the lot of even the most glorious flags to be thrown in the mud. Glory, what men call glory, is often thick with mud.

Si vedrà chi ha più pazienza, la guerra o Napoli.

But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive.

But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive. from 'The Fallen Kings.

There could be no home for the Tillermans. Home free — Dicey would settle for a place to stay. Stay free.

You were going to fall, you always did, but you had to get up fast and keep going.