Quotes About Resilience

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Great loves too must be endured.

We still got roaches on the bed, walls, and floors, but Troy ain't even crying 'bout them no more. He probably too used to them by now.

I gotta say, it feel good coming back home to the projects. Where I belong.

When confronted with unexpected and ambiguous circumstances, you can either see opportunity or obstacles. I believe that opportunity is present even in chaotic situations.

Until then, have great expectations. Keep believing you dreams will come true. And remember, when life throws you a pit... plant a cherry tree.

When life throws you a pit, plant a cherry tree.

We must not let the doomsayers and the naysayers cause us to lose faith in our city, in ourselves and in each other. Much of the negative propaganda with which we are bombarded is calculated to disarm us. Without love and without hope there can be no future for anyone.

Be loyal to your daily practice. Keep working. And keep knocking on the door. As you'll remember, it is said in one of Rumi's most pithy moments that the door we're knocking on opens from the inside.

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

We all go through that. Everyone's feeling a little out of sorts. No one knows exactly where he stands. Work is a wonderful way of putting you on your feet again, old boy

I've known perfectly well, for a long time, that I have an irrational heart. But knowing it doesn't stop me in the least.

Rest assured that long patience and jealously concealed sorrows have shaped, refined, and hardened that woman who makes people exclaim: "She's made of steel!" She's simply "made of woman," and that's sufficient.

A woman can never die of grief. She is such a solid creature, so hard to kill!

Soyez sûrs qu'une longue patience, que des chagrins jalousement cachés ont formé, affiné, durci cette femme dont on s'écrie 'elle est en acier !' Elle est 'en femme', simplement, et cela suffit

Today, I dressed my wound, and nursed my hurt in a sheltered place.

Nulla porta-lo so- all'amore. E' lui che si butta di traverso sulla vostra strada. La sbarra per sempre o se se ne allontana lascia la via sconvolta, sfondata. Soltanto nel dolore una donna è capace di superare la mediocrità

When are a 'lady on your own,' in other words the landlords' abomination, outcast and terror all rolled into one, you take what you find, lodge where you may, and put up with newly plastered walls.

You can be certain that long patience, and griefs jealously hidden have tempered and sharpened and toughened this woman till everyone cries 'She's made of steel!' No, she is merely made of woman.

Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is.

Like any decent reconaissance agent, he had fought his way into trouble in order to fight his way out

Very soon he'll be well enough to roll about in mud, eat worms, and walk aimlessly around Nam Poo Fountain again.' 'I'm sure he doesn't see it as aimless. We all have different goals. His are achievable.

I don't know. On my last junket I was caught in the middle of a massacre. The one before that I was tortured and left for dead. Joy and recreation seem to have escaped me somehow.

Evil, he had come to believe, was controllable as long as man had the strength of will to believe in himself.