Quotes About Resilience

Haig said, "Victory will belong to the side which holds out the longest." What a pathetic admission!

Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. Clive Barker

Time either erodes us, or it silts us up. There is no cast iron shore.

I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.

He just carried on being dead

from J. K. Rowling

Being a mother isn't easy.

She was an anchor but at least now she knew it had an end, a stopping place. It hit bottom. She could fall no deeper.

We are those who came from the ones who survived, buried in that place after walking the death trail from Mississippi. Missa Sipokna. We walked into this lost foreign place having no homes, no body of peace just the papers with signatures of those who made promises not held.

Life is constant—and changing," Cate mused. "We can never guess what will happen in a day. We will all face danger, and finally death, be it from an accident, disease or old age.

Failure is how we learn—it's how we develop and acquire grit.

Happiness is not the absence of problems. It's the ability to deal with them.

Hard work is good for the soul," she would say. "And it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself, because you don't have time.

Stay alive so you can tell.

take a deep breath. Keep your body fully in the present and your mind in the recent future. Don't let the past get in your way.

Sometimes, everything in the world seems to be lined up against you. All the evidence says you ought to run the other way. Make the bravest choice, not the safest. It's not the best advice, but it's all I have to offer

Being a McKettrick meant claiming a piece of ground to stand on and putting your roots down deep into it. Holding on, no matter what came at you. It meant loving with passion and taking the rough spots with the smooth. It meant fighting for what you wanted, letting go when that was the best thing to do.

It's not smart to hold yourself away from the shocks of life, the good ones or the bad. They're all part of the mix, and paradoxically, shying away from them only makes things harder.

Her fatigue was gone; she felt vital and strong, like a tree coming back to life in the springtime, vibrant with sap, ready to put out buds and then blossoms.

that in modern life we overuse the "fight, flight, or freeze" response, because we respond to many situations as if they are life-threatening when they are not. As a result, our nervous systems don't have time to recover, because we are activating this response too frequently.

It is struggle that strengthens and makes us aware, that tempers the spirit and opens the mind's eye.

It is well to learn disappointment when one is young, for the gods bestow it abundantly if one cheats death for long.

Although I was terribly let down after that, there was one good side to the experience. The more that decent people became interested in me for decent reasons, the stronger I became.

Being able to say "I'll try again" is one of the deepest expressions of faith in oneself. When