Quotes About Resilience

There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may bide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light.

One smile on the brown hills and naked trees, And the dark rocks whose summer wreaths are cast, And the blue gentian flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.

The light of smiles shall fill again The lids that overflow with tears; And weary hours of woe and pain Are promises of happier years.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.

So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustain'd and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." Thanatopsis

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

Every life spends some time in the mud. Your faith hasn't really been tried until you have spent some time in the mud.

What matters it, O breeze, If now has come the spring When I have lost them both The garden and my nest?

Life, much like so many athletic events, is largely a game of recovery.

I locate Essential Spain at last - the cruel winds, the grinding poverty, the unforgiving landscape. It could be Wales.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

Dado que no puedes hacer lo que quieres, pregúntate qué puedes hacer».

Navajo heaven is not a solemn gray high refuse heap for humble failures.

If it should happen you wake up and Armageddon has come, lie still.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.

The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.

The object of life, after all, is not to understand things, but to maintain one's defences and equilibrium and live as well as one can; it is not only maiden aunts who are placed like this

Or ever the knightly years were goneWith the old world to the grave,I was a King in BabylonAnd you were a Christian Slave.

Out of the night that covers me,Black as the Pit from pole to pole,I thank whatever gods may beFor my unconquerable soul.In the fell clutch of circumstance,I have not winced nor cried aloud;Under the bludgeonings of chanceMy head is bloody, but unbowed.

There are no great men, just great challenges which ordinary men, out of necessity, are forced by circumstances to meet.

People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance.