Quotes About Resilience

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, and if the sun don't come, we'll be standing in the English rain.

Whatever gets you through your life 'salright, 'salright

In the end everything will be ok if it's not okay it's not the end.

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A working-class hero is something to be.

Whatever gets you through your life, it's alright. It's alright.

When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.

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Lightness of being," then, is the ability, if not to find the good in bad things, then at least to remain afloat among them, perhaps to swim or to sail through them, possibly even to take precautions that can keep you dry.

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Scale sets the ranges within which experience accrues. If, in evolution, edges of chaos reward adaptation; if, in history, adaptation fortifies resilience; and if, in individuals, resilience accommodates unknowns

If at first you don't succeed - you haven't planned properly!

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry!

Corpses were wrapped in sheets, pushed into corners, left there sometimes for days, the horror of it sinking in deeper each hour, people too sick to cook for themselves, too sick to clean themselves, too sick to move the corpse off the bed, lying alive on the same bed with the corpse. The dead lay there for days, while the living lived with them, were horrified by them, and, perhaps most horribly, became accustomed to them.

Monument and Ignacio, Colorado, went further than banning all public gatherings. They banned customers from stores; the stores remained open, but customers shouted orders through doors, then waited outside for packages.

The preservation of morale itself became an aim. For if morale faltered, all else might as well. So free speech trembled.

Katherine Anne Porter was a reporter then, on the Rocky Mountain News. Her fiancé, a young officer, died. He caught the disease nursing her, and she, too, was expected to die. Her colleagues set her obituary in type. She lived. In "Pale Horse, Pale Rider

meal" every day. All these sacrifices were of

Even where fear closed down businesses, where both store owners and customers refused to stand face-to-face and left orders on sidewalks, there was still too much interaction to break the chain of infection. The virus was too efficient, too explosive, too good at what it did. In the end the virus did its will around the world.

finally fade away in both the United States and the world. It did not disappear.

Learning how to learn on his own proved one of the most important lessons of his life.

He hurt everywhere, so at least he must be alive. Another comforting thought because, despite everything, he wanted to be alive. It was the business of living he wanted nothing to do with.

Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.