Quotes About Resilience

Away! we know that tears are vain, That Death nor heeds nor hears distress: Will this unteach us to complain? Or make one mourner weep the less? And thou — who tell'st me to forget, Thy looks are wan, thine eyes are wet.

With nothing left to love— there's naught to dread.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

Ivy dreams sullenly and alone of overthrowing the cities.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.

I'm successful in spite of my past, not because of it!

We're all dancing in the darkness.

you've gotta take love where you can find it in this cruel world and hold on tight for as long as you can, because you never know what will steal it from you.

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But I do love the world," I whispered to the empty room. I love its small ones, the things beaten in the strangling surf the singing bird which falls and is not seen again, the lost ones, the failures of the world.

Great minds have always seen it. That is why man has survived his journey this long. When we fail to wish any longer to be otherwise than what we are, we will have ceased to evolve. Evolution has to be lived forward. I say this as one who has stood above the bones of much that has vanished, and at midnight has examined his own face.

I one saw, on a flowerpot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to rebuild a remembered field. I have lived to see this episode repeated in a thousand guises, and since i have spent a large portion of my life in the shade of a non-existent tree, i think i am entitled to speak for the field mouse. (As quoted by Richard Powers in The Echo Maker)

Authentic Instruction is not always comforting or comfortable.

The older you get, the deadlier you have to be and you use age to your advantage. You make it a strenght. Most of us are more dangerous the longer we live. If we didn't care about dying when we were young, we're not going to be too concerned about it when we have two feet in our grave.

We had nothing else - no money, no bikes, no summer camps, no vacations. Nothing, except one another. To us, that was all that mattered.

Only then could I move away from the wails of the walking dead and feel, for a fragment of time, that I was still alive.

But what is done is done, and you cannot change that. Ma quelche fatto è fatto e non si può cangiar.

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