Quotes About Resilience

But then he remembered what George had told him about pain. You know what you can do, even if your body says quit. It's only pain. "It's only pain, he thought, hearing George's voice and seeing his eagle-face. If anyone would know, George would, he thought. And truly, he thought, it's the most useful one thing a body can know.

He remembered another one of his mother's saying. It was back when she'd birthed Fanny, her tenth. Someone had siad it was about time she gave up mothering and rested. "Nay," she had said. "I've started something, and now I wouldn't stop if I could, and I couldn't stop if I would.

James Alexander Thom

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness

Many give way when success is assured, and rapidly fall back into failure.

Calmness is power.

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic.

Only worry about your own happiness, which doesn't have to be limited by anyone else's stupidity unless you allow it to be.

Depression: Is it a human condition one can live with or a condition on should succumb to?

To defend one's self against fear is simply to ensure that one will, one day, be conquered by it fears must be faced.

Success is messy. But so is life. Deal with it. Poverty is messier.

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.

Tant'è vero che il tentativo supremo di chi non vuol più accettare è quello di suicidarsi.

Don Pepe was a Mexican man: a fatalist. He meant to impart much more than comfort. He meant that all good things would also end. All joy would crumble. And death would visit each and every one of them. He meant that regimes and ancient orders and cultures would all collapse. The world as we know it becomes a new world overnight.

She learned that women were braver than men. Braver and stronger. She learned that she herself could one day stretch open as wide as a window, and it would not kill her.

In the desert, we are all illegal aliens.

If you were born to be a nail, you cannot curse the hammer.

Better a gringo than a dead man," the lieutenant sighed, smoke escaping his nostrils. "Barely! But, yes, hell yes.

For every bad thing in life, mezcal. And... for every good thing, too.

The armored creatures wrestled one another, and when one seemed about to climb out of the basket and make its escape, the others would grab it and haul it back down into the endless battle.

I never said that. We'll all be hurt, child. We will all be hurt. What I said was: they shall not overpower you.

The elder members of the family never failed to marvel at the attitude of the kids, how Big Angel was a rolling laugh riot to them, arbiter of bad jokes, spiritual insight, ice cream money, and shelter when they were bounced out of their houses or were let out of jail or rehab or needed to come in off the streets at midnight.

Dead in Their Tracks by John Annerino