Quotes About Resilience

I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair. Time, doing this to me, may alter too. My sorrow, into something I can bear.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Last, but by no means least, courage - moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle - the roar of the crowd on one side and the.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

In our daily lives problems are bound to arise. The biggest problems in our lives are the ones that we inevitably have to face, like old age, illness, and death. Trying to avoid our problems or simply not thinking about them may provide temporary rel.

Old age is no place for sissies.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least, get out of the way so you won't get run over.

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog.

The man that runs away lives to die another day.

I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.

He who laughs, lasts.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life.

Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.