Quotes About Resilience

Patience enrageth indeed the wicked, but meekens the saints.

But 'the patience of hope,' we are now treating of, is a sober grace, and abides as long as hope lasts; when hope is lively and active, then it floats, yea even danceth aloft the waters of affliction, as a tight sound ship doth in a tempestuous sea; but when hope springs a leak, then the billows break into the Christian's bosom, and he sinks apace, till hope, with much labour at the pump of the promise, clears the soul again.

A friend for adversity is as proper as fire is for a winter's day.

When the spirit is low through unbelief, every threatening from man makes sad impression. Let thy faith take but a deep draught of the promises, and thy courage will rise.

A false heart yields when sin comes with a bribe in its hand.

Never can we truly recover our courage, till we recover our holiness—'If

We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

The hurt heart heals, but the healed heart still hurts. -- From "Exile" in Finding a Form

He could have set fire to it, the garden was dry enough, and burned it clean—privet, vines, and weeds; but he waited in his rooms through the winter instead, weeping and dreaming.

it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

Whatever their occupation, almost all organization people feel their particular job is depression-proof.

We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.

Whatever necessities you require, work to get them. If you fail to get something, then smile and try again in a different way. If you succeed, then enjoy what you get, but without attachment.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.

The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and endure very much

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

You will never face an evil you have not the strength to master.

Fear is a numbing thing when there is no recourse to hope or escape...

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

a famous quote by Nietzsche, "Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster.