Quotes About Resilience

Pray when you feel like praying," somebody has said. "Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you do feel like praying.

Love sticks around even when it has a lot to put up with.

authentic followers of Christ follow Him in the midst of a hostile and toxic environment.

Tomorrow is another day. I've got plenty of things to worry about right now.

And finally, I bless my daughters, who are yet unborn. I pray that, if life tests them—as sooner or later life is bound to do—they'll be able to stand steadfast and think carefully, using their hearts as well as their heads, understanding when they need to compromise, and knowing when they must not.

I have to believe in possibility. How else can we bear the enormous weight of life?

Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?

Never choose something because it's easier.

All the way back, I pondered the word endure, what it meant. It didn't mean giving in. It didn't mean being weak or accepting injustice. It meant taking the challenges thrown at us and dealing with them as intelligently as we knew until we grew stronger than them.

Ii would no longer waste time on regret. I would turn my face to the future and carve it into the shape I wanted. - Panchali

I couldn't control what was done to me. But my response to it was in my control.

the bird began to carry them to a new life in a new land. We'll be happy ever after, the queen wanted to whisper to her daughter as they flew, but she knew that was not true. Life never is that way. And so instead she held her daughter in silence, heart to heart, and as they traveled each heart drew on the other's strength, so that when they reached their destination they would be ready.

Girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women.

Every person has a heart, but we're not always lucky enough to get a glimpse of it. And every heart, even the hardest, has a fragile spot. If you hit it there, it shatters.

Perhaps that was why I had to endure pain—because true transformation can only happen in the crucible of suffering

Danger will come upon us when it will. We can't stop it. We can only try to be prepared. There's no point in looking ahead to that danger and suffering its effects even before it comes to us.

I may be injured; I may even be wounded to the heart; but I'm not defeated yet.

This is the nature of sorrow; often it fades with time, but once in a while it remains lodged below the surface of things, a stubborn thorn beneath a fingernail, making itself felt every time you brush against it. (How well I knew this, for random events would startle me into the memory of a pair of ancient eyes.)

Anger and self-pity are useless emotions, so I push them away and speak calmly, even though my heart is breaking all over again.

She taught me to close myself off from the sorrow of others so that I might survive

Who held his cries in until red swam behind his eyelids like bleeding stars.

This was something I had achieved by myself, without having to depend on anyone. No one could take it away. That's what I want for you, my Tara, my Bela. That's what it really means to be a fortunate lamp.

All through the history of the world, the virtuous have suffered for causes unseen. Learn from Nal and Damayanti to bear your misfortunes bravely. Like theirs, your evil times, too, will come to an end.

At what point does forbearance cease to be a virtue and become a weakness?)