Quotes About Resilience

Birds have bills too, and they keep on singing

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.

The children walking over the bricks of their destroyed homes, their mother putting up a tent, their father in jail... in tears and confusion looking at the tanks coming down the street, the men holding metre-long machine guns... they stare... need I say more ...just imagine how it would feel to be a Palestinian....

Why torture yourself when life'll do it for you?

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

(Think of one's self as a teakettle) Though up to it's neck in hot water, It continues to sing.

A strong woman is still a strong woman even if the world refuses to acknowledge her.

Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.

Are you using your pain as an excuse or as a source of strength?

Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it.

Calm her chaos, but never silence her storm.

Courage atrophies from lack of use.

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger men.

Dripping water hollows out stone, but through force but through persistence.

Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.

Failure isn't falling. It's refusing to get back up.

Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.

Find my hand in the darkness and if we cannot find the light, we will always make our own.

Forgiveness is the beautiful fragrance left on the heel of the shoe after stepping on a bunch of violets.

Friends are angels that lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

Giving up is always an option, but not always a failure.

Great lives never go out; they go on.