Quotes About Resilience

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

She was stronger alone…

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

We do not suffer by accident.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

The last few hours were certainly very painful, replied Anne: but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

The one claim I shall make for my own sex is that we love longest, when all hope is gone.

I am very strong. Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

faultless in spite of all her faults...

Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

Time did not compose her.

You mean to frighten me, Mr Darcy, by coming in all this state to hear me? But I will not be alarmed though your sister does play so well. There is a stubbornness about me that can never bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…

It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition.