Quotes About Resilience

Unexpected situations are often matched by unexpected virtues, are they not?

Not everything that is faced can be changed," Baldwin instructs, "but nothing can be changed until it is faced."24

We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad what could I do.

Going to the outhouse was an ordeal, a wade through shoulder-high drifts, forced to dig to make forward progress.

In Pinchot, he saw someone "who could relish, not run from a rainstorm," as he wrote. Just like himself.

long months of despondency I could

Indiana embraced him, even after news of his assault had made its way into the state.

Timothy Egan

Loveliness, he said, is paid for in the currency of suffering.

An apple that hasn't experienced the hard times of cold is flat, tasteless, bland. But an apple that's hung in the hundred-degree temperatures of day and held through the thirty-five-degree nips of night is a fruit with experience. Cold helps to bring out the acid, which makes an apple tart. Color is painted by warmth.

to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Ike Osteen's life spans the flu epidemic of 1918, the worst depression in American history, and a world war that ripped apart the globe. Nothing compares to the black dusters of the 1930s, he says, a time when the simplest thing in life—taking a breath—was a threat. Up

Faith is groping at air during the fall, hoping to find something to grab on to.

Two million Americans were living as nomads. They were not long-time drifters, most of them, according to reporters who had spent some time on the trains. They were family men, farmers and factory hands, merchants, some professionals among them, writers and bank clerks and storeowners—all broke, people who could not stand to see their kids in rags, hungry.

Most days, Bam didn't care what people said to him or about him. Gossip in town wasn't worth a cup of curdled spit.

A handful of Hoosiers were heroic—two rabbis, an African American publisher born enslaved, a fearless Catholic lawyer, a small-town editor repeatedly beaten and thrown in jail, a lone prosecutor.

ground. In 1917, about forty-five

BLACK MAN DON'T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON YOU HERE

Hazel missed trees. She wanted just one sturdy elm with a branch strong enough to hold a swing. And she didn't want to live in a hole in the ground, with the snakes and tarantulas, and sleeping so near to the stink of burning cow manure.

Better for a man to fail, he said, even "to fail greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner

Never let a good crisis go to waste. It's the universe challenging you to learn something new and rise to the next level of your potential.

Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly.

Learn to be difficult when it counts