Quotes About Resilience

You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit.

This is what being alive's all about, all those fucked up feelings. You've got to have them; when you stop, watch out.

Life is 10 what you make it, and 90 how you take it.

There's an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

The snow is snowing and the wind is blowing But I can weather the storm! What do I care how much it may storm? For I've got my love to keep me warm

Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie. [Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.]

Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.

he who lives on hope will die fasting—

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

It is always necessary to remain barbarians, because it is the barbarians who always win.

Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is not the tool of the soldier, just as the hammer is the tool of the carpenter. We live off death and the threat of death and we must take it calmly and use it well.... Eventually I came to enjoy killing, as a pianist enjoys the Czerny which keeps his fingers limber for the Beethoven.

The modern world, he thought resentfully, prepares you very poorly for the tests it puts you to.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

Janet was a tower of strength to me during the miserable time of uncertainty that preceded the divorce. She never pushed me; never urged me to agree to anything foolish in order to hasten the divorce; seemed perfectly willing to continue our irregular arrangement for the rest of our lives. If Gertrude was making life harder for me, Janet was making it easier to an even greater extent.

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

ODESSA IS A NASTY PLACE. Everybody knows that.

What do these children do without storybooks?" Naftali asked. And Reb Zebulun replied: "They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them." I couldn't live without them." Naftali said.

If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.