Quotes About Resilience

Whatever they were, she sat on the kerb, folded them tight in her fist, and the sobs gashed their way through her chest, surging against the flesh of her face, bursting out through her mouth and into the rain.

Maybe, by a certain age, we have all encountered some impossible loss, or at least the accumulation of small sufferings.

Aunt Isabelle fractured her ankle once while gardening

It's a lot easier to be crazy or mad than to just get on with living.

This is what I want you all to do. I want you to open a new document and type up a list of three problems in your life. Not the universe's life - your own. Underneath, type the solutions." "If we know the solutions," said Belle, "they're not problems." "Exactly," said Denny. "You do know the answers to most of your problems. Somewhere deep inside, you know.

Farrah Fawcett had courage, she had strength, and she had faith.

Wherever we are posted, there we stand, come life or death, to the end.

Life is like a grindstone; whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of.

Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.

In self-defence, you know, all life eventually accommodates itself to its environment, and human life is no exception.

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it--but all that had gone before.

When nothing seems to help, I go back and look at the stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it--but all that had gone before.

Kada ništa ne pomaže odem i gledam kamenoresca kako udara ?eki?em po velikom kamenu. Udari i stotinu puta, a na kamenu nema ni pukotine. Ipak, nakon stotinu i prvog udarca kamen pukne na pola...ja znam da nije pukao baš od toga udarca nego od svih prethodnih koji su zadani.

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it - but all that had gone before.

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.

It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

hung at the back of the line, determined to be last. When she

Whenever trouble comes your way, let it be an opportunity for joy. When your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow. For when your endurance is fully developed, you will be strong in character and ready for anything.

There is a fine line between determination and sturbborness; the only difference lies in your power.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.