Quotes About Resilience

That is the true challenge--to work within a narrow confine. To accept what you cannot have; that from which you cannot deviate.

that would be too much like running away, and that, she would not do. She does not run—they cannot make her—she walks.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

Candella Rautenbach.

Aboli went on.

This was a man, tall and broad-shouldered, forged like steel in the furnace of life.

attempt to escape

toughening-up process

Devo manter meu coração cheio de amor hoje pois de que outra maneira poderei suportar mais este dia?

Wading sloughs of flesh these helpless wander, Treading blood from lungs that had loved laughter.

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

This is a miserable world, says the Sergeant. Human life, Mr. Betteredge, is a sort of target --misfortune is always firing at it, and always hitting the mark.

In my youth, I should have chafed and fretted under the irritation of my own unreasonable state of mind. In my age, I knew better, and went out philosophically to walk it off.

We had our breakfasts—whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast. When

Human life, Mr. Betteredge, is a sort of target—misfortune is always firing at it, and always hitting the mark.

After the lapse of a minute, I roused my manhood, and opened the door.

Here I am, with my book and my pencil - the latter not pointed so well as I could wish, but when Christians take leave of their senses, who is to expect that pencils will keep their points?

Cultivate a superiority to reason, and see how you pare the claws of all the sensible people when they try to scratch you for your own good!

Persons and Things do turn up so vexatiously in this life, and will in a manner insist on being noticed.

Destiny has got the rope round my neck – and I feel it.

Bu darbenin etkisinden kurtulabilmek ve kaderimi kabullenebilmek, kederimi yavaÅŸ yavaÅŸ yaÅŸamak, umutsuzluÄŸa kap?lmamak için elimden gelen her ÅŸeyi yapm??t?m. Yarar? olmuyor, ne kadar aÄŸlasam da yanan gözlerimdeki yaÅŸlar dinmiyordu—

Some people in my position would now have felt rather crestfallen, and would have begun to think that they had made a very foolish mistake. Not the faintest misgiving of any kind troubled me. I did not feel in the slightest degree depreciated in my own estimation. And even now, after a lapse of three hours, my mind remains, I am happy to say, in the same calm and hopeful condition.

When things are at the worst, they're sure to mend. Things can't be much worse, Mr. Franklin, than they are now.