Quotes About Resilience

It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Great, tell me when you've defeated Voldemort for me, will you?

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish... but battle on.

It was not, after all, so easy to die.

The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.

Don't let the muggles get you down.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

What you fear most of all is —fear. Very wise...

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

To hurt is as human as to breathe.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

We're all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human … the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

Happiness can be found in even the Darkest of places. If only one remembers to turn on the light. -Albus Dumbledore

As long as the sun's shining, shit can't be that bad.

We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Stevenson, though, Was soon enough reduced to the timeless lamentations of the I-Matang on an atoll: "I think I could shed tears over a dish of turnips," he wrote in a letter. And elsewhere: "I had learned to welcome shark's fresh for a variety; and a mountain, an onion, an Irish potato or beefsteak, had long had been long lost to sense and dear to aspiration.