Quotes About Resilience

Troubles are a lot like people — they grow bigger if you nurse them.

That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.

Try not to worry, as it's sticky and hard to scrub off.

Worry whomps and wails on weary souls.

A harsh critique is a pen stab through the heart — and the resultant inkbleed.

Paper endures everything.

Don't be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.

"Women's rights will not go back to the Dark Side!" —Ruth Vader Ginsburg

There was a senator, I think it was after my pancreatic cancer, who announced with great glee that I was going to be dead within six months. That senator, whose name I have forgotten, is now himself dead, and I am very much alive.

Notorious RBG: You can't handle the Ruth.

Been down so long, down don't worry me.

Because my father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you. And no fascist-minded people will drive me from it.

The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement. One elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest."

The broken heart is broadest.

It's so curious: one can resist tears and "behave" very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar always means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

I don't think then of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Hope is the physician of each misery.

Hope is grief's best music.

Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.

Physical strength is measured by what we can carry, spiritual by what we can bear.

Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.

Never give up trying, wherever you may be, and whatever may be the threatening ills which rise against you. What if gods and men and the whole world oppose you? There is always some place where the soul can be itself. There is no defeat except from within... There is no power either in heaven or earth that can successfully oppose the onward course of the perfectly determined soul.