Quotes About Resilience

His years as a policeman had taught him to be not fearless, only to disregard the fact of being afraid.

Her own mother had died when Anna was twelve and since then father and daughter had faced the world like a pair of nineteenth-century adventurers, a riverboat gambler, say, and his alibi girl.

There are moments when the past has a force so strong it seems one might be annihilated by it

Lots of water under that bridge, let's not drown ourselves in it.

The world's first task, as I knew well, a task it never relaxed from, was to undo me. I was even afraid of the sky.

Pacjent - powiedzia?a mi pewnego dnia Anna, ju? blisko ko?ca - to dziwne s?owo. Cierpliwy. A ja wcale nie jestem cierpliwa.

Life, authentic life, is supposed to be all struggle, unflagging action and affirmation, the will butting its blunt head against the world's wall [...]

Hay momentos en que el pasado posee una fuerza tan poderosa que parece que podría aniquilarte

When you're lost, the smartest thing to do is stay put till you're found, hollering if necessary

I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

However things hurt, men hurt worse.

Trees endure the hot sun and rainstorms by sending their roots down deeper. The adversity they face is eventually the source of great stability. The harshness of the elements surrounding them causes them to seek another source of life. They will one day come to the place that even the greatest of windstorms cannot affect their ability to produce fruit.

Jesus said, "It is impossible that no offenses should come" (Luke 17:1). It is not a question of opportunity to be offended, but what your response will be. It is an unfortunate fact that, not some, but many are offended and held captive.

Jesus learned obedience by the things He suffered. Peter learned obedience by the things he suffered. Paul learned obedience by the things he suffered. What about you? Have you learned? Or are you hard, calloused, cold, bitter, and resentful? Then you did not learn obedience.

Godly fear, faith, and humility is the true threefold cord that can't easily be broken (see Ecclesiastes 4:12).

Some offenses will be more challenging than those for which we've been trained. This extra strain may cause

As ofensas revelarão a fraqueza e os pontos frágeis de nossas vidas. Em geral, o ponto em que pensamos que somos fortes é a área da nossa fraqueza oculta. Ela permanecerá escondida até que uma poderosa tempestade arranque aquilo que a cobre.

Some think it is the big things that cause men to stumble. Often it is the minor ones that shake us the most. This shows the futility of self-confidence.

Do not be afraid to fail. Be afraid to accept that who you are right now is all you are going to be.

You already have everything you need to be a longdistance athlete. You see, once you decide to run or walk farther than the 10-K (6.2 miles), your quest centers much more on tenacity than talent.

It was a difficult time to be Irish, a difficult time to be twenty-one years of age and a difficult time to be a man who was attracted to other men. To be all three simultaneously required a level of subterfuge and guile that felt contrary to my nature.

Don't you ever think,' he asked cautiously, 'that it would be better to be a bully than to be bullied? At least that way no one could ever hurt you.' Katarina turned to him in amazement. 'No,' she said definitively, shaking her head. 'No Pieter, I never think that, not for a moment.

Well, I'm not advocating it," I said. "I just mean that before we learn to feel afraid of things, our bodies know how to do them anyway. It's one of the more disappointing aspects of growing older. We fear more so we can do less.