Quotes About Resilience

I knew he that he didn't have the strength to get free. His life was being driven by a kind of flywheel. He had submitted to it and accepted it. It was turning fast. To slow it down or stop it and come to a place that was moving with the motion only of time and loss and slow grief was more, that day, than he could imagine. I knew too that it was more than he could bear.

What can't be helped must be endured.

She mourns for the future, as the past has taught her. And yet there is a rejoicing in her, persistent and unbidden as the beating of her heart.

The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings

What can't be helped must be endured, Mat Feltner said. And he was a man who knew.

But grief and griever alike endure.

You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

Big Ellis giggled. "We heard you were dead, Burley." "So did I," Uncle Burley said. "But I knew it was a lie as soon as I heard it.

Let the fragments of love be reassembled in you. Only then will you have true courage. Hayden Carruth

She was going about her life, taking her pleasures as she found them, suffering what was hers to suffer, doing what she had to do. She had about her no air of self-pity or complaint. And this could only have been because, in her own heart, she was not pitying herself or complaining.

After you have said "thy will be done," what more can be said? And where do you find the strength to pray "thy will be done" after you see what it means?

I was changed by Nathan's death, because I had to be. Our life together here was over. It was my life alone that had to go on. The strand had slackened. I had begun the half-a-life you have when you have a whole life that you can only remember.

And when we finally gathered ourselves together again among the ruins, we were changed.

She cared for him without hope, because she had passed the place of turning back or looking back. Quietly, almost submissively, she propped herself against him, because in her fate and faith she was opposed to his ruin.

Whatever happens, those who have learned to love one another have made their way to the lasting world and will not leave, whatever happens.

A hood is far from an ideal garment to wear in a fistfight.

Well, sir," Athey said, "where I used to be limber I'm stiff and where I used to be stiff I'm limber. Do you know what I'm talking about?

It bears the gnarls of its history healed over. It has risen to a strange perfection in the warp and bending of its long growth. It has gathered all accidents into its purpose. It has become the intention and radiance of its dark fate.

But there, in her diminishment, she seemed to resemble only herself, as if suffering finally had singled her out.

We spend our lives trying to fill the empty places in our souls that lobe never got to, where there wasn't enough water to reach our roots; its those deficits that often have the biggest impacts on us and that shape us the most. Whatever the void created in those early formative years, I think it's part of who I became as an adult

Maybe some things aren't meant to be known. maybe there just meant to be accepted.

Perseverance is where the gods dwell.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, Battles are lost in the same spirit In which they are won

Disco will... never be over. Disco will always live in our minds and hearts. Something like this, that was this big and this important and this great, will never die.