Quotes About Resilience

Fear cannot take what you do not give it.

I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my body is infirm and exhausted. All that was left to me and my brothers has been taken away and sold, even to the cloak that I wore, without hearing or trial, to my great dishonor.

In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.

We know that we will never confront the exact same circumstances as previous revolutions. But we should also know that certain problems are persistent ones and that if we can't say what we would have done in the past we should not expect people to think much of our ability to face the future.

He seemed to believe that every battle was worth fighting.

You're only as tall as your heart will let you be and you're only as small as the world will make you seem.

If any lesson from war is to be learned, John, it must be always to prepare for the unexpected and face the unthinkable.

Now, the tourist hot spots of the city were the very parts that made it like everywhere else. Was it possible to imagine those buildings without inhaling the animal-fat stink of McDonald's or KFC? He never thought London would cease to appeal to him, but the little faded glory it still possessed was being scuffed away by the dead hand of globalization. On his down days he saw London as a crumbling ancient house, slowly collapsing under the weight of its own past.

My dear Mother, I didn't knock myself down. Why Should I pick myself up?

I defend myself against pain and death by pain And death,

Importunate life. It should have something better to do Than to hang about at a chronic street-corner In dirty weather and worse company.

How do you know that out there, in the day or night According to latitude, the entire world Isn't wanting to be hanged? Now you, for instance, Still damp from your cocoon, you're desperate To fly into any noose of the sun that should dangle Down from the sky. Life, forbye, is the way We fatten for the Michaelmas of our own particular Gallows.

My goal is to live far outside of history as possible. History is a territory where mostly bad things happen to good people.

Life is swimming to shore with cowboy boots on.

Is your faith such a fragile thing that it can be so easily shattered?

Humans, it seemed, were like cockroaches. Determined enough, they could thrive anywhere.

The Suffering are always here, no matter where else they may be.

Whatever people give you, give it back to them times ten. Be ready, always, to take everything to the next level. Someone's nice to you, make it your job to improve their day, give them a laugh or a pat on the back. But someone comes at you with attitude, or looking for a fight, you drop the fuckin' sky on their heads. Be ready either way, every day.

Be cheerful, work hard, laugh a lot, be light of heart, because though the cold might kill you, it hadn't yet. Instead, it gave you what you needed to live.

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

He was dying all his life.

Please understand that there is no one depressed in this house. We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

Love and hope are infinitely more powerful than hate and fury.

It was becoming evident to many that while evil grows all by itself, good can be achieved only through hard struggle and maintained only through tireless effort, ..