Quotes About Resilience

There cannot be any 'story' without a fall – all stories are ultimately about the fall – at least not for human minds as we know them and have them. Letter 130 From a letter to Sir Stanley Unwin

There cannot be any 'story' without a fall – all stories are ultimately about the fall – at least not for human minds as we know them and have them. Letter 131 To Milton Waldman

Who said anything about justice? There's no such thing. But injustice is as much a part of life as the weather.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.

When you are frustrated and do not know a way out, only flexibility and moderation towards difficulties will save you.

She has seen the good, the bad and the ugly, and yet her dreams still seem far from being realised.

250,000 men and women who worked in the mills are history. Some died, some became disillusioned, others simply lost their minds. Many committed suicide, some just melted into the background, some retreated to their native villages – while others ended up hawking vegetables beneath the very structures that gave them their bread and butter.

Through pain comes wisdom. I endured a lot of pain.

When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.

What kind of soldier carries music instead of guns?

The past is comforting, Natalie. It's comforting because we survived it.

How we choose to deal with pain is ultimately the measure of who we are and of the success we have in closing our gaps.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

They say, you cannot stop the birds of sorrow, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair.

To Win, You have to accept defeat

My greatest strengths are my weaknesses, for it is through acknowledging them that I learn how to grow.

Writing is 90% struggle. The other 10% is up to you.

My greatest strengths are my weaknesses, for it is from those that I learn how to grow.' Iain Cameron Williams

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.

For the genuine believer] There are moments in life when God's pursuit of us seems like that of a persistent mosquito, constantly buzzing around our heads and causing us pain, and we are utterly powerless to shake him off.

In a world of chemically induced sanity, a little lunacy confers immense advantages.

Mossy had trouble breathing. He was not convinced the rewards repaid the effort. He took breath in, but after that let it fend for itself.