Quotes About Resilience

True, 'tis an unhappy circumstance of life that love should ever die before us, and that the man so often should outlive the lover. But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old. For my part, my youth may wear and waste, but it shall never rust in my possession.

Mr William, he said, in my life six times have I crashed, and on not one occasion have I ever been killed.( Bevinda Singh taxi driver from City of Djinns

Failure is success if we learn from it.

the genius of Churchill was his union of affinities of the heart and of the mind, the total fusion of animal and spiritual energy"—but

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

Love doesn't die; the men and women do.

I am not one of those women who can stand things.

She was the captain of her soul

She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.

I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!

Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.

It is because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it. That's what is so terrible. That he can bear anything, anything.

That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating the life of man in its implacable and brooding image.

It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened to you and all it was was just pain, all it did was hurt and so it was all over, all finished, all right.

it takes an awful lot of character to quit anything when you are losing

When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

I can stand on my own feet; I don't need any man's mahogany desk to prop me up

A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.

She has had a hard life, but so does every woman.