Quotes About Resilience

He remembered deciding then that the world was full of Simon Legrees, and that you had to be an animal, as tough as the gorillas who worked with him at the warehouse, or starve.

There is no moral to my life - I have none - except: 'Stand up and take it'. The rest is sentiment.

One interesting thing is that a stage is reached when nothing hurts any more. Things cannot become any worse, finally, for the one who is really depressed.

You either let some event ruin your life or not. The decision is yours.

And when all's said and done, the final comment will be (from me at least) so what? I'll live with my neuroses. I'll try to develop patience, with my handicapped personality. But I prefer to live with my neuroses and try to make the best of them.

Every failure teaches something. 12

He had actually been to weak even to leave the hotel, but he had crawled around on the floor of his room, following the patches of sunlight that came through his windows, so that he wouldn't look so white the next time he came down to the beach.

I'm still an old pearl in a new oyster.

I can easily bear cold, loneliness, hunger and toothache, but I cannot bear noise, heat, interruprions, or other people.

Patricia Keelyn

Don't, Lily. I will not be able to stop myself. I forced the burden of bearing a child on you once before. I will never do so again. There must be time for you to grow strong. We do not need to have more children. I would not see you suffer through that pain again. Lily glared at him. I am strong, Cade. I am strong and I am not afraid of bearing your children. And I need you in the same way that you need me and you will drive us both mad if you deny it. She

The implacable Indian had turned out to be one hell of a cantankerous patient. Besides

If you have a worry problem, apply the magic formula of Willis H Carrier by doing these three things: Ask yourself, 'What is the worst that can possibly happen?' Prepare to accept it if you have to. Then calmly proceed to improve on the worst.

Try to bear lightly what needs must be.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade

our hearts and minds are not engaged due to problems at home or elsewhere. The

No lloremos nunca sobre la leche derramada

Rather than saying "you failed," say "the project failed.

Todos los hombres tienen temores, pero los valientes los olvidan y van adelante, a veces hasta la muerte, pero siempre hasta la victoria. Ese era el lema de la Guardia Real en la antigua Grecia.

Pero se necesita carácter y dominio de sí mismo para ser comprensivo y capaz de perdonar.

encouragement can be given any time, even when things go poorly.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery but the friction.—Henry Ward Beecher.

Sponsors dropped him, his wife left him, and his golf skills suffered greatly.

Business men who do not know how to fight worry die young.