Quotes About Resilience

Half of us are going to come out of this isolation as amazing cooks and the other half as drunkards.

Gardening is simply a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it

You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt.

When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside too.

To array a man's mind and will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

You can shout it to every star, Bare your soul up to the moon, Cast your problems nightly afar— But they always flood back by noon.

Life lesson from the nursery: Broken crayons can still color.

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.

[Y]ou can do it, even if you can't. Just keep can'ting until eventually you can.

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on!

When you get to your wits' end, you will find that God lives there.

We won't break, Mary. We look very small, but the reed can carry weight.

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.

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

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

You must be at the end of your rope. I felt a tug.

I am having an out-of-money experience.

When fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your teeth.

Effort is like toothpaste: you can usually squeeze out just a little bit more.

I think when loved ones die, we absorb something from them that makes us who we are so we can continue on.

Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love.