Quotes About Resilience

Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.

All she could do was hope, and she kept trying to do that in spite of the fear and loneliness.

Love makes us suffer. But this task of ours is greater than revenge. Remember that.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair.

and it would all go back to the way it used to be. At the same time, he knew it wouldn't, but he had to hold on to something in the dark nights, and imagination was all he had.

I wish..." she said, and stopped. There was nothing that could be gained by wishing for it. A final deep shaky breath, and she was ready to go on.

No one has the ability to laugh at their misfortunes like the women of the East End.

There's no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There's no other way.

other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harmless. Their weakness can be their strength.

He calls his brother. it is the wrong brother from whom to seek consolation, but what can he do? When it comes to consolation it is always the wrong brother, the wrong father, the wrong mother, the wrong wife, which is why one must be content to console oneself and be strong and go on in life consoling others.

Great artists, as history reveals, have been harshly persecuted time and again by the frightened and ill-educated

For all that I announce at intervals that I want to go mad, it is apparently impossible: beyond me, beneath me. It took This for me to learn that I am a citadel of sanity.

True, he had chosen to live alone, but not unbearably alone. The worst of being unbearably alone was that you had to bear it - either that or you were sunk. You had to work hard to prevent your mind from sabotaging you by its looking hungrily back at the superabundant past.

There is something fascinating about what moral suffering can do to someone who is in no obvious way a weak or feeble person. It's more insidious even than what physical illness can do, because there is no morphine drip or spinal block or radical surgery to alleviate it. Once you're in its grip, it's as though it will have to kill you for you to be free of it. Its raw realism is like nothing else.

It's amazing how much punishment we can take.

Fear unmans us. Fear degrades us. Fostering less fear—that's your job and mine.

There is no life without patience.

Nothing could appear to be more human than refusing to believe extinction possible so long as you were encircled by luscious eggplants and ripe tomatoes[..]

One has periods of ghastliness. And then long periods of sort of quiet and love.

Which only goes to show what everyone learns sooner or later about loss: the absence of a presence can crush the strongest people.

Ma appena desideri appassionatamente una cosa sulla quale non puoi esercitare alcun controllo, sei alla vigilia di una grossa delusione: ti stai preparando a farti mettere in ginocchio.

Ordinarily my mother drew no strength from scorn

other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harmless. Their weakness can be their strength. A

Anger is to make you effective. That's its survival function. That's why it's given to you. If it makes you ineffective, drop it like a hot potato.