Quotes About Resilience

No man can smile in the face of adversity and mean it.

Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.

Suffering is not a prerequisite for happiness.

I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness.

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

To let sorrow go his own way one gives happiness a chance

There are no short and easy paths to a long and lasting happiness.

Even while you're in pain, your happiness will be waiting

With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.

Happiness is often hard-hearted.

Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection.

Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.

When sadness comes, accept it. Listen to its song. It has something to give to you. It has a gift which no happiness can give to you, only sadness can give it.

To be strong is to be happy!

The blues he sends to meet me, won't defeat me. It won't be long til happiness steps up to greet me.

Happiness is an immunity.

Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.

What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?

You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

Lasting happiness is the offspring of endurance.

You have to learn to smile through your pain. Sometimes it's all we got.