Quotes About Resilience

There was a contest in Ancient Greece to find out who could write a sentence that would somehow always be true. The sentence that won the competition was "This too shall pass.

and warm awareness, you are going to have an incredible life. You are going to have sufferings as well, but you will always return to that place of warmth and fire within yourself.

Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.

Etty spent her last days giving hope and care, "with a kind word for everyone she met on the way." Her final words were written on a postcard and thrown off Wagon No. 12, the railroad car she rode to what she knew would be her death in Auschwitz. "We left camp singing," she wrote. The Nazis took control of her possessions, her mobility, her work, her family, her body, and finally her life, yet she believed that they did not truly take anything at all.

But whatever dismal appearance of things there may be in the world, we need not fear the ruin of the church by the most bloody oppositions. Former experiences will give security against future events. It is built on the rock, and those gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the other ceases living, doth but half his work, Gal. vi. 9; Heb. xii. 1; 2 Cor. vii. 1.

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in order to move forward and live. It is like a muscle and it must be exercised, first a little, and then more and more. All the really exciting things possible during the course of a lifetime require a little more courage than we currently have. A deep breath and a leap.

Walk towards the good. Don't be distracted by fear, by rage. Walk towards the good. In places, that path is wide. In places, perilous. Walk.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.

Keep moving forward until we find something better to do, Hinchcliffe replied. Maybe find the nursery for the dog-demons. I'd rather kill them stillborn. I didn't know you were a Democrat, Staff Sergeant, Berg said with a grin. Don't ask, don't tell, Two-Gun.

Never ever say: It couldn't be worse.

For the anvil never cries for the iron.

Being good is the best revenge anyone can have.

They know that they are practically unarmed. Yet they are trying to find out how to help us.

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pain was weakness leaving the body.

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

Some people would say bullshit is the grease that gets people through life," Weather said. "Other people," Letty said. "Not me.

depression was to be feared—and he could feel it sniffing around outside his door, looking for a way in.

Hey, people get killed from time to time, that's just the way of the world, let's not bust a budget about it . . .

Women don't learn any of that: when they fight, they'll rip the gizzard out of anyone who gets in the way.

Scratching their nails on the blackboard of futility.