Quotes About Resilience

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Big shots are just little shots that keep shooting.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

He was willing to wait until the last dollar was broken: in the meantime he was content. You never know the soul of a city, he said, until you are down on your luck. Now, he felt, he had been here long enough to understand her.

Life, as parents know, can be supported on very little sleep.

He had come to the conclusion that children are tougher and more enduring than Dr. Holt will admit; and that a little carelessness in matters of hygiene and sterilization does not necessarily mean instant death.

There are two Mississippi Valleys. One is wet, the other dry. The river made the wet valley by flooding it with dirty water and filling it with mud. People made the dry valley by draining it of water and hardening mud into dirt. The two valleys exist in uneasy tension, the wet valley always ready to burst into the dry valley that holds it down.

How can you move faster than possible, fight longer than possible without the most powerful impulse of the spirit: the fear of death.

The greatest enemy is one that has nothing to lose.

Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.

There comes a time when you're losing a fight that it just doesn't make sense to keep on fighting. It's not that you're being a quitter, it's just that you've got the sense to know when enough is enough.

No sir, I don't know why, but my eyes don't cry no more.

Having a little pee in your pants had to be better than being dinner for some redneck.

Just like when there's a time that a smart person knows enough is enough, there's a time when you know you've got to fight.

Hoping is such hard work. It tires you out and you never seem to get any kind of reward. Hoping feels like you're a balloon that has a pinhole that slowly leaks air.

Christopher Paul Curtis

Christopher Paul Curtis

Where there is fear, there is power." When we look at what we are afraid of, we can unlock great resources of strength.

Putnam argued that the concept of psychological bravery has not been properly recognized in ethics and asserted that the psychological bravery involved in facing fears generated by our own habits is essential to well-being.

Ryan and Frederick (1997) showed that in a population suffering from debilitating pain, pain level per se did not detract from vitality. Instead, pain fright was negatively associated with vitality, as was attending treatment for external as opposed to internal reasons. Some of the factors that may influence one's sense of vitality and contribute to its resilience are one's feelings of personal causation, optimism, and perceptions of social support.

In the expression of grief lies recovery from grief itself.

When once before I wished myself dead, the wish was not strong enough. I can make myself die only by convincing myself that there is also a hope I shall not succeed.

In the expression of grief lies recovery from grief itself. Nor

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.