Quotes About Resilience

A haggard man used one of the huts as a home. He lay on a sagging mattress, his head on his pack, surrounded by rubbish - paper, porcelain shards, food remains and unidentifiable debris. His hand was over his eyes. He looked like a failed soldier. Dirt seemed so worked into him that the lines of his face were like writing.

Ilse Aichinger, "The Bound Man

I didn't tell the story to ask for help because I knew there was no help.

I always stayed. I can't say I chose to stay as I felt quite without traction, without capacity to find myself or anything.

The branches dropped shaggy creepers that, when they reached the earth, hardened into roots and pried apart paving.

Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an artî

You can only go halfway into the darkest forest; then you are coming out the other side.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.

A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water.

That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape one hundred days of sorrow.

The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.

One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.

Fall down seven times, get up eight. Japanese Proverb

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.

One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.

One joy shatters a hundred griefs