Quotes About Resilience

All Hallow's Day: grief comes in waves. Now it threatens to capsize him.

He has always done what was needed to survive, and if his judgement of what was necessary was sometimes questionable. . . that is what it is to be young.

We are taxed till we cry, we must live till we die, we be looted and swindled and cheated and dwindled … O, Worse was it Never!

Well, you know how it is, some people are born with sour temperaments and they use the misfortunes in their lives as an excuse for them.

She is never put down for long. That's why men like her. There will be other times, other men, others manners.

The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if only you can see it.

He gives himself a glass of wine, and another to Wyatt; says, 'Gardiner has people outside the gate, watching who comes and goes. This is a city house, it is not a fortress – but if anybody's here who shouldn't be, my household does enjoy kicking them out. We quite like fighting. I'd prefer to put my past behind me, but I'm not allowed to. Uncle Norfolk keeps reminding me I was a common soldier, and not even in his army.

We don't have to invite pain in.It's waiting for us:sooner than later

For Saffron," it said in shaky old writing on the damaged base, and on the other side, "Saffy's angel." Saffron, picking up the broken fragments one by one, said it didn't matter. She hugged Rose and Indigo and Caddy and Sarah, and said again and again that it didn't matter, it didn't matter at all.

Storm H. D., 1886 - 1961 You crash over the trees, you crack the live branch— the branch is white, the green crushed, each leaf is rent like split wood. You burden the trees with black drops, you swirl and crash— you have broken off a weighted leaf in the wind, it is hurled out, whirls up and sinks, a green stone.

O do not weep, she says, for ages past I was and I endure

She's wearing one of the dresses of ... of the people ... who lived here before.

And I saw a light-filled man emerge from the aforesaid dawn and pour his brightness over the aforementioned darkness; it repulsed him; he turned blood-red and pallid, but struck back against the darkness with such force that the man who was lying in the darkness became visible and resplendent.

I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

MOTHER TIME: The past is always with us, dear, for better or worse. It is what it is and you can't change it. All you can do is learn how to live with it in the present.

Winston Churchill, who apart from his statesmanship also wrote and painted prolifically, famously defined success as arising from "the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

North Korea is perhaps the darkest place in the world. The country lacks electricity; everything is gray and monotone

Hope dies all the time. And yet we need to believe it will come back and attach itself to a new cause - a new love, a new house, something that gives us a sense of purpose, which is ultimately what hope is.

it's a good thing I'm used to this; the process of shutting things out as they fall apart, the pretence of cool in a dry, hot season, the taste of redemption in a t.v. screen if God had a voice what would it say?

The worse the ill that fate on noble souls Inflicts, the more their firmness; and they arm Their spirits with adamant to meet the blow.

Being alive is sign of strength!

The world doesn't need any more sadness than it's already got.

I will never give up... I will never give up! As long I'm still breathing in this world... As long I'm still standing, I will never give up!!!