Quotes About Resilience

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.

The glass is always half full even when it's upside down.

Hardship bred a bitter, quickfire humour and resilience to all but the most terminal of life's tragedies.

Here's to all the songs and all their singers, in times of darkness and times of light.

No sooner had he finished with a case than another two or three appeared in its place. What was the name of that creature? The Hydra, was it? That was what he was fighting. Every time he cut off a head, more popped into his in-tray. Coming back from a holiday was a nightmare. And now they were giving him rocks to push up hills as well.

Down Where the Drunkards Roll." "How

People could go about their lives again. He could give Samantha and Carrie a hug, though he sensed a reticence still in his granddaughter, who was yet to be jabbed. Were things really getting back to normal, or was there no longer any normal for them to get back to?

her face had decided long ago that make-up wasn't going to cure anything. Her

John Martyn on instead, Grace and Danger

In mathematics, it's unwise to abandon an interesting idea just because it's wrong.

Lucrul cel mai simplu pe care îl ai de f?cut atunci când trebuie s? te miÅŸti, dar nu poÅ£i evada, este s? oscilezi.

Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it.

At no point did I break down," Mrs. Nimitz later recalled. "I was brought up by my mother to take what's coming, and you don't weep over it. You have to go through things.

Things were so bad at Pearl Harbor," Seaman Mason recalled, "that even the chiefs were working.

Heart lesson #3: post-heartbreak survival. The heart is resilient, I mean literally. When a body is burned, the heart is the last organ to oxidize. While the rest of the body can catch flame like a polyester sheet on campfire, it takes hours to burn the heart to ash. My dear sister, a near-perfect organ! Solid, inflammable.

Dear Holly: Heart lesson #3: post-heartbreak survival. The heart is resilient, I mean literally. When a body is burned, the heart is the last organ to oxidize. While the rest of the body can catch flame like a polyester sheet on a campfire, it takes hours to burn the heart to ash. My dear sister, a near-perfect organ! Solid, inflammable. Heart lesson #4: the unrequited heart. You can't make anyone love you back.

South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.

I'm bullshit proof.

I want to say at the outset that I have become ill, insane, as an inmate of the torture chamber behind America's fake facade of justice and democracy. But I am not as ill as I was, and I am getting better all time.

A bitch aint shit without a man's good whip, & 1 monkey wont stop my show.

I was losing, page by page, the fine rules of thought and deed that I had learned in church, from Henry to the Boy Scout Troop in Rockford. I was sopping up the poison off the street like a sponge.

As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.