Quotes About Resilience

If you can love all who've betrayed you... you can taste sweetness in everything.

The point is to turn your grief into love. The roses are helping you find grace.

Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.

purification was the point of such pain.

Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Being a mother was like being a ship's figurehead: you had to keep moving forward through the waves and weather, your head high, even when an iceberg was clearly on the horizon, too big to go around.

Your heart is always harder than a stone.

Endure, my heart: you once endured something even more dreadful.

Hades is relentless and unyielding.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

Tell me, muse, of the man of many resources who wandered far and wide after he sacked the holy citadel of Troy, and he saw the cities and learned the thoughts of many men, and on the sea he suffered in his heart many woes.

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

Smiling through tears.

Friends, we have not till now been unacquainted with misfortunes.

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time

Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.

Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it's born with us the day that we are born.

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.

Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.

Of all things that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man. Taken from the Odyssey.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.