Quotes About Resilience

Katniss Everdeen did not think she was good enough to win the Hunger Games. But she had no choice. The writing game is an arena and once you're in, don't waste precious time worrying about how good you are. Gather your weapons and supplies, and fight.

Could be worse!

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

you can lose every round of a fight, just don't lose the last one.

Now I think I understand how this world can overcome a man.

In his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into the rueful morrow of manhood. After this most inconsolable of sorrows there is nothing life can do to him that he will not be able somehow to bear.

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness.

It's forty kilometers through hell, sir," said the sergeant. Mitty finished one last brandy. "After all," he said softly, "what isn't?

Books can be burned," croaked Black. "They have a way of rising from the ashes," said Andreus.

Después de todo ¿dónde no hay infierno?

Ne regardez pas en arrière avec colère, ni devant avec crainte, mais autour de vous avec conscience.

I won't go down the horrible street To see the horrible people I'll gladly climb the terrible stair That leads to the terrible steeple And the terrible rats And the terrible bats And the cats in the terrible steeple But I won't go down the horrible street To see the horrible people

This time the destruction was so complete... That nothing at all was left in the world Except one man And one woman And one flower

On his misfit globe he has outlasted the mammoth and the pterodactyl, but he has never got the upper hand of bacteria and the insects.

It is more dangerous to strong-arm life than to embrace it.

I trust that this collection of pieces will prove that I ave not become, at sixty six going on fifty, as one friend of mine gallantly put it, completely lugubrious.

When times are bad smile, when times are good laugh.

History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, and if faced With courage, need not be lived again. —MAYA ANGELOU

However long or dark the night is, the dawn will always break. ~ African Proverb

I woo'd a woman once, But she was sharper than an eastern wind.

Better than a sharp stick in the eye.

In the Shreve High football stadium, I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville, And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood, And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel, Dreaming of heroes.

I have torn myself out of many bitter places In America, that seemed Tall and green-rooted in mid-noon.