Quotes About Resilience

Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.

The fascination of what's difficult has dried the sap out of my veins and rent spontaneous joy and natural content out of my heart.

But Love has pitched his mansion in The place of excrement; For nothing can be sole or whole That has not been rent.

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet ; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

William C. Davis

If he give me credit for being a plodder he will describe me justly. Anything beyond that will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

Yea, and so abundant were they in the three first centuries, that ten years constant and almost universal persecution under Dioclesian, could neither root out the Christians, nor prejudice their cause.

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

I walk back streetsadmiring the housesof the very poor.

Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell.

you have enemies? Good. That means you've stuck up for yourself sometime in your life.

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers and thermonuclear weapons.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

No voice divine the storm allayed, No light propitious shone;When, snatched from all effectual aid, We perished, each alone:But I beneath a rougher sea,And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.

But it is a sort of April-weather life that we lead in this world. A little sunshine is generally the prelude to a storm.

In a fleshy tomb I am buried above ground.

The darkest day if you live till tomorrow will have past away.

Grief is itself a medicine.

If the world like it not, so much the worse for them.

En apariencia abandonado y solo, escucho el león rugir: y toda puerta se cierra menos una, y esa es la puerta de la misericordia

Ernst von Paulus,

In those days kitchen matches were heavy-duty implementsmore like signal flares than the weedy sticks we get today. You could strike them on any hard surface and fling them at least fifteen feet and they wouldnt go out. Indeed, even when being beaten vigorously with two hands, as when lodged on the front of ones sweater, they seemed positively determined not to fail.