Quotes About Resilience

Yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From out dark spirits.

Blinded alike from sunshine and from rain, As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again

No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.

Knowing well that my life must be passed in fatigue and and trouble, I have been endeavouring to wean myself from you: for to myself alone what can be much of a misery? As far as they regard myself I can despise all events: but I cannot cease to love you.

I left poor Scylla in a niche and fled. My fever'd parchings up, my scathing dread Met palsy half way: soon these limbs became 640 Gaunt, wither'd, sapless, feeble, cramp'd, and lame.

Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul? A place where the heart must feel and suffer in a thousand diverse ways!

Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life. Ignatius was about to say this to himself; then he remembered that he went to the movies almost every night, no matter which way Fortuna was spinning.

Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.

She appears to have been knocked a bit in her life already. Up rather than down. If she ever nears me, however, the direction will be reversed.

John Kennedy Toole

Phineas created an atmosphere in which I continued now to live, a way of sizing up the world with erratic and entirely personal reservations, letting its rocklike facts sift through and be accepted only a little at a time, only as much as he could assimilate without a sense of chaos and loss.

Until now, in spite of everything, I had welcomed each new day as though it were a new life, where all past failures and problems were erased, and all future possibilities and joys open and available, to be achieved probably before night fell again. Now, in this winter of snow and crutches with Phineas, I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of the night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn't make yourself over between dawn and dusk.

You know what? I'm almost glad this war came along. It's like a test, isn't it, and only the things and the people who've been evolving the right way survive.

There isn't much Rainer is proud about any more. In coming to America, he's had to eat a tableful of humble pie, and he's learned it goes down best with a smile.

Don't use your upbringing as excuse, use it as power.

If you're not happy, the jerks win.

Whatever gets you through the night

I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

Nobody loves you when you're down and out.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

rain, I don't mind

Living is easy with eyes closed Misunderstanding all you see It's getting hard to be someone But it all works out It doesn't matter much to me.

When you do something noble and beautiful and no one notices, don't be sad. Sunrise is a beautiful spectacle but without a doubt the greater part of the audience is still asleep.