Quotes About Resilience

David Adams Richards

We fought so hard against the small things that we became small ourselves. —EUGENE O'NEILL

Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. —Michael McGriffy, M.D.

Water is what it is, and does what it does. It can overwhelm, but it's not overwhelmed. It can be still, but it is not impatient. It can be forced to change course, but it is not frustrated.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. —Edward Gibbon At

Bailing water in a leaky boat diverts energy from rowing the boat.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. —Edward Gibbon

Clearing the mind and being flexible are key.

Organizations are now almost universally in morph mode, with ever-changing goals, products, partners, customers, markets, technologies, and owners. These all, by necessity, shake up structures, forms, roles, and accountabilities.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. —Sally Kempton

What is the purpose of living if there are no perils to be encountered and overcome?

Follow me, one word then another, one sentence then another, one death then another. Don't hesitate. Keep moving forward with me through the night. It won't take long. Don't look back.

I was born in a hovel on the banks of the Tyne, as so many of us were back then.

Ar manai, kad meil? gali pad?ti žmogui išgyti?

Amazingly, even in midst of trauma, people continue to smile, to love, to celebrate, to create, and to renew.

These supersurvivors radically deviate from their previous life paths, often transforming the worst thing that's happened to them into the best.

Once the decision is out of your hands, there's no way you can be tempted into doing the wrong thing.

There is real happiness to be gained from being able to distinguish between things that cannot be changed and things that should be changed.

Things might look bad now,but in matters of the heart you'd be surprised how quickly things change.

It's not so much that time heals all wounds, as it is the passage of the years that lets us make peace with our grief in our own way.

She apparently didn't expect any trouble but she also never expected everything to go perfectly either. That was a good rule to live by Robie knew. Because perfection was rarely the case in the field.

Things sometimes did not work out. Even if you wanted them to more than anything else. You couldn't will someone to love you back. You had to move on.

Life is what it is, Will. You take it as it comes.

You had to take life as it came. It gave no quarter, spared no feelings. Limited no pain. Put no ceiling on happiness.