Quotes About Resilience

Hope is a survival instinct

Hope is a survival trait

she never lost hope. She told herself, 'This is temporary.

The forces raging around us—greed, corruption, hatred, blind prejudice—are ones we might be foolish to think we can overcome. It's understandable

stand up against it. And even when they lose their lives, their voices still resonate long after they are gone, giving us inspiration and hope—hope in the ultimate goodness of this strange, conflicted human animal that evolved from an apelike creature some six million years ago.

Hope does not deny all the difficulty and all the danger that exists, but it is not stopped by them. There is a lot of darkness, but our actions create the light.

school shootings, gang warfare, domestic violence, and racism and sexism. How can you possibly be hopeful for the

It was from a species long thought to be extinct—a species known only from the fossil record, a species that turned out to have survived for two hundred million years. Those trees, who came to be known as Wollemi pines, had been in that canyon, getting on with their lives, through seventeen Ice Ages!

She truly is a symbol of the resilience of nature—and a reminder of all that was lost on that terrible day twenty years ago.

around four main reasons for hope: the amazing human intellect, the resilience of nature, the power of youth, and the indomitable human spirit.

Yes," Jane said. "Hope does not deny all the difficulty and all the danger that exists, but it is not stopped by them. There is a lot of darkness, but our actions create the light.

The Survivor Tree—the tree who was rescued after she was crushed and wounded on 9/11.

Welwitschia mirabilis.

I see what you're saying about the link between nature's resilience and human resilience," I said. "How addressing human injustices like poverty and gender oppression makes us better able to create hope for people and the environment. Our efforts to protect endangered species preserve biodiversity on the Earth—and when we protect all life, we inherently protect our own.

Imagine—this gangly plant, which Darwin likened to a duckbill platypus of the vegetable kingdom, has survived as a species, unchanged, for 135 to 205 million years. Originally its habitat was lush, moist forest, yet it has now adapted to a very different environment—the harsh Namib Desert.

He took me to visit the safe house he had created for young people who were affected by drugs, alcohol, and violence in their homes.

uncomfortable.

My mother grieved appropriately for a woman who had lost her husband of almost thirty years so tragically, and then, after six months, she blossomed.

I thought my entire life was coming apart, but I think I just realized that sometimes the thing you think is going to ruin your life is the thing that saves you.

Shock doesn't hit all at once. I have learned.

sometimes the thing you think is going to ruin your life is the thing that saves you.

For the first time in her life she found herself failing at something.

1 thought my entire life was coming apart, but 1 think 1 just realized that sometimes the thing you think is going to ruin your life is the thing that saves you.

I just realized that sometimes the thing you think is going to ruin your life is the thing that saves you.