Quotes About Resilience

Even the most powerful enemies who threaten or oppress God's children will one day fall.

Together with God you can successfully handle any difficulty.

Adversity gives you the opportunity to exhibit godly character.

Opposition should never keep you from the work God has called you to do.

He asks, in a softer voice, Does your arm still hurt? You touch it with your hand. The big ache is gone, leaving only the little, underneath ache that will gather and swell against the bone. The blood leaks out of the vein where he grabbed you. But you say, It's better now.

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

We survive by learning from pain

No one gets over anything.

Goddamn but her mind was so exhausted with trying to hold the world together, tired of being the living glue for herself, as if she let go, great pieces of her life would shatter and fall off in mockery of the apocalypse.

Pain (2) ...You want to give up, throw in the towel but you can't give up because you're all you have.

There is the question of whether life is long enough to get over anything. I sat down on the ground to avoid tipping over from the enormity of it all.

She wasn't trying to overcome life, only to get along with it, to blend with the processes she could scarcely understand in a world that had permitted her no solid ground.

There is a spine of goofiness in America that has never been deterred by literacy

After the passing of irresistible music you must make do with a dripping faucet.

A mood can be a mud puddle to be jumped over.

I suppose poor Adams never recovered from the suicide of his wife, though it is arguable whether anyone ever truly recovers from anything.

It was today—rather yesterday I think—that he told me it was important not to accept life as a brutal approximation.

However grim the world, we are what we have evolved into.

No one grows up, they just get tired. Or few indeed. No stopping for dead animals on the turnpike. Too dangerous.

If you dive down deep enough there are no words to bring you up. Not my problem. If you fly too high there are no words to help you land. I went back to my land of bears and learned to bob like an apple on the river's surface.

There is the question of whether life is long enough to get over anything.

She is also the least defenseless woman I have ever known.

A creek is more powerful than despair.

damn the world and its wars, she thought. Those who start the wars never die in them. She packed hastily, had supper with Winnie