Quotes About Resilience

When you hear me singing you get the rifle down and the flashlight, aiming for my brain, but you always miss and when you set out the poison I piss on it to warn the others.

More than whimsy, joy is a weapon we use to fight life's battles.

Joy would not deny the hardship, but would choose to acknowledge and face it no matter what the outcome.

Sometimes we need to give space for grief in order to make room for joy. No one is immune to sorrow, and only those who learn to grieve well can recapture the healing it brings. Just as light needs darkness, so joy needs grief.

The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.

The strong look for more strength, the weak for excuses.

Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from beneath my feet. It chills my spirits like a rainy day, and all I can do is draw the curtains and cry into my pillow.

You must bear losses like a soldier, the voice told me, bravely and without complaint, and just when the day seems lost, grab your shield for another stand, another thrust forward. That is the juncture that separates heroes from the merely strong.

Kindness is stronger than iron bars.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.

The things we fear most in organisations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity.

A Warrior for the Human Spirit is a decent human being who aspires to be of service in an indecent, inhumane time.

She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.

Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful.

She was a woman, slight, almost frail in appearance; not someone who could fight with guns to free the slaves, as in the United States, but someone who could fight with knowledge in the corner of the world where she found herself.

I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't say I like it, or accept it, or believe it's for the best. I don't and never shall, not even if I'm damned for it.

Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg.

Impegnarsi per essere naturali è già una sconfitta.

Ci sono cose. Piccole cose che non dimenticherò, che sono niente e invece restano più forti di tutto.

Nella vita capita di rinunciare alle persone migliori a favore di altre che non ci interessano, che non ci fanno del bene, semplicemente ci capitano tra i passi, ci corrompono con le loro menzogne e ci abituano a diventare conigli.

Il fango fermo della vita ora è polvere che vola verso di me.

Persone benefiche che incontri per caso e ti viene voglia di abbracciare, perché ti sorridono dal fondo della loro esperienza umana e di colpo ti risarciscono dell'altra metà del mondo, quella accasciante delle persone rinserrate nella loro pozza di buio.