Quotes About Resilience

Without hope, people become desperate to escape the pain. They seldom see the rhythms in their own lives, how dark phases come before new beginnings.

I'll do anything reasonable, but I won't be intimidated and I won't grovel.

If my love must be a rodent, then shall I be anything but a rat?

There was no bombing of the U.S. mainland, no civilian casualties, no destruction of millions of homes. Indeed, while the standard of living plummeted for the vast majority of Britons during the war, many if not most Americans lived better than ever before.

Churchill almost single-handedly changed the mood of a nation. Shaking the British out of their lethargy, he imposed his "imagination and will upon his countrymen,

Major General Colin Gubbins, who headed the British agency charged with inciting sabotage and subversion in occupied Europe, observed after the war that of all the European countries overrun by the Nazis, "only the Poles, toughened by centuries of oppression, were spiritually uncrushed.

Navarre made it clear that Marie-Madeleine Fourcade had his full confidence and that Boutron must accept her authority. She was, the chief added, "the pivot around which everything turns. She is the most valuable of us all." He described her in glowing terms, saying she had "the memory of an elephant, the cleverness of a fox, the guile of a serpent, the perseverance of a mole, and the fierceness of a panther.

In the earliest days of World War II when London was undergoing the blitz but the United States had not yet been drawn into the hostilities, the US ambassador walked the streets during the hottest of the bombing and ask people at every level of British society what he could do to help. What a picture of our role as ambassadors of Christ's coming Kingdom!

war correspondent

It seems to me that the only way to strengthen the morale of the people whose morale is worth strengthening, is to tell them the truth, and nothing but the truth, even if the truth is horrible." Clark

The connection formed by a threat to one's county is the strongest connection of all. People adopt one another, march together. Only capture or death can tear them apart.

What can you do? You pick yourself up. You pull yourself together. You move on.

My dance on the pedestal was my friendship with Maureen. I wasn't sure how I had lost my balance and fallen off. Or whether I was pushed. Everyone around me was trying to get me to dance again. The thing was, I hadn't quite given up on getting back up there. I still believed it was the only place where I could be happy.

When you've loved somebody for a long time, and then it stops, it's akin to an amputation in that you go on feeling the cut-off part long after it's been taken away. All sorts of nervous and emotional impulses set out to travel to their accustomed stations, and when they come up against the new, raw barrier, they're carried through it by their own impetus, and only then, finding themselves shooting through empty space, do they dwindle and die away.

I put my chin up and tried to stiffen my upper lip, but found I didn't seem to have any muscles in it.

Even to be impaled by a happy fate makes you jerk against the knowledge of inevitability, of final commitment.

Parables, yes. We here are to lead life with woe. Tasting bitter.

I know, I should've just shut him down like a Broadway Musical, but that's just not the way I'm wired.

We can transform our fear and anxiety into commitment and action. That transformation is what interrupts and heals the fear, and it moves the dial on what is causing it.

I'm not equipped to handle what she has, both good and bad and what she has is always a package deal of both. In other words, I've been assigned a load I can handle.

Rejection—It may be a delay. It may be a distraction. It may even be a devastation for a season but it is not your final destination.

It's impossible to hold up the banners of victim and victory at the same time.

These seasons of suffering are not for nothing. They will grow you. They will shape you. They will soften you. They will allow you to experience God's comfort and compassion. But you will find life-giving purpose and meaning when you allow God to take your painful experiences and comfort others. You will be able to share a unique hope because you know exactly what it feels like to be them.

We must speak with honor in the midst of being dishonored. We must speak with peace in the midst of being threatened. We must speak of good things in the midst of a bad situation. We must be obedient to, trust, and believe God and let Him boss around our contrary feelings.