Quotes About Resilience

Wives invariably flourish when deserted; it is the deserting male who often ends in disaster. (William McFee)

Jam nie z soli wyrósÅ' ani z roli, jeno z tego, co mnie boli

I have noticed that the stoutest pessimists, when fate or men try to take something out of their lives, fight tooth and nail, and cry out as loud as the greatest optimists.

A very poor man lives upon crumbs, and smiles gratefully—through tears. 6

Henryk Sienkiewicz

He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.

It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.

It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it as with a ball.

Out of every one-hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior and he will bring the others back.

Who will hide from the fire that does not set?

Nat: Maybe you broke something. Midge: I know. Never fall down, never fall down! Nat: Ah, it's nothing. I fall down every morning. I get up, I have a cup of coffee, I fall down. That's the system. Two years old, you stand up and then BOOM! seventy years later, you fall down again.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Regular elicitation of the Relaxation Response can prevent, and compensate for, the damage incurred by frequent nervous reactions that pulse through our hearts and bodies.

The question is not whether you're frightened or not, but whether you or the fear is in control. If you say, 'I won't be frightened,' and then you experience fear, most likely you'll succumb to it, because you're paying attention to it. The correct thing to tell yourself is, 'If I do get frightened, I will stay in command.'

The grass will grow in the streets of a hundred cities.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

The American system of rugged individualism.

About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.

Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.

Quando si perdono il senso dell'umorismo e il coraggio nello stesso momento, è segno che anche la partita è persa.

We cannot be damaged into health.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.