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Quotes About Resilience

know that this is a very long way, therefore patience is necessary in this
~ Unknown
all cynicism masks a failure to cope.
~ John Fowles
I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.
~ John Fowles
Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.
~ John Fowles
Nu poti sa urasti pe cineva deja infrant.Care, fara tine, nu va mai fi niciodata om intreg.
~ John Fowles
I could offer no consolation and I do not think he wanted any. There are situations in which consolation only threatens the equilibrium that time has instituted.
~ John Fowles
But though one may keep the wolves from one's door, they still howl out there in the darkness.
~ John Fowles
Comprendo que soy terriblemente cobarde. No quiero morir, porque amo la vida apasionadamente. ¡Nunca había sabido hasta hoy cuánta es mi ansia de vivir! Si consigo librarme de este infierno, jamás podré volver a ser lo que era antes.
~ John Fowles
3. Alegerea Cruta-l pana moare. Chinuie-l pana traieste.
~ John Fowles
Eram prea necopt ca s? ?tiu c? cinismul de orice fel este o masc? pentru neputin?a de adaptare - pe scurt, un fel de impoten?? ?i c? a dispre?ui orice fel de efort este cel mai mare efort.
~ John Fowles
We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
~ John Fowles
there were times i thought i would forget her. but forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. only it didn't happen to me
~ John Fowles
For you I'll always be Alison who slept around. That Australian girl who had an abortion. The human boomerang. Throw her away and she'll always come back for another weekend of cheap knock.
~ John Fowles
There were even times I thought I would forget her. But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me.
~ John Fowles
Her ÅŸeyi olduÄŸu gibi kabullenmek gerekiyordu. Ama evrim yasalar?n?n bu kadar büyük bir duyars?zl?kla, bu kadar büyük bir sakarl???n ayn? zihinde var olmas?na izin verdiÄŸi düÅŸüncesi beni ç?lg?na çeviriyordu. Egom kapana k?st?r?lm?? bir tavÅŸan gibi c?yak c?yak ba??r?yordu.
~ John Fowles
I know what it's like when people go away. It's agony for a week, then painful for a week, then you begin to forget, and then it seems as it never happened, it happened to someone else, and you start shrugging. You say, dingo, it's life, that's the way the things are. Stupid things like that. As if you haven't really lost something for ever.
~ Unknown
You may already be familiar with the Serenity Prayer: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." Here's a QBQ twist for all of us: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know—it's me!
~ John G. Miller
No matter what we're trying to accomplish, there's always a barrier of some kind to overcome, and it's often something over which we have no control. Instead of focusing on the barriers, let's work to become so good that we'll succeed no matter how many bad calls the ref may throw at us.
~ John G. Miller
Only those strong enough to keep silent about self are strong enough to be sure of self.
~ John Galsworthy
Love is no hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
~ John Galsworthy
FALDER. It's easy enough to put a face on it, sir, when you're independent. Try it when you're down like me. They talk about giving you your deserts. Well, I think I've had just a bit over.
~ John Galsworthy
MRS. PEACHUM How the mother is to be pitied who has handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars and lectures of morality are nothing to them – they break through them all.
~ John Gay
I understand that not everyone is so lucky; a precious few have it easier, but most have it harder. I might once have said that you make that kind of luck for yourself, and in some ways you do, but it's just as often true that people end up where they are through no fault of their own and are then faced with making the best of it.
~ John Gierach
Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.
~ John Glenn