Quotes About Resilience

Pioneers do not as a rule settle for the comfortable corners of life, and Maria Sklodowska was no exception.

Théodore Vacquer,

You have to live without love, learn not to need it in order to live with it.

His flexible mind extended to take in his opponent's position and then snapped back like an elastic, with the illusion that it had covered ground.

She rarely showed her emotions, which appeared to have been burned out by the continual short-circuiting of her attention.

I can only offer this advice: if you expect sunny paths all the time and no storms you will know disillusionment, but if you are prepared for rough paths and storms you will cope and will know the pleasure of achievement

She waved me to a plaid couch in the middle of the living room floor. I eased down and looked around the sorry place. The odor of stale turnip greens was so thick, it seemed like it was seeping through the walls. Every piece of furniture looked like it belonged in the city dump, especially a chair with no legs facing the couch...If Betty Jean hadn't been so cheerful, I would have felt sorry for her.

Like almost every other colored person, I couldn't tell the difference because we'd been going through a "depression" all our lives.

THE TAHITIANS don't have a word that means "art." The closest expression in their language translates to something like "I'm doing the best I can." Ever since I heard this it has become a kind of mantra to me. I try and apply it to my own work, to my students and anyone who shares his or her work with me. If we live with the idea of perfection, we will never do anything. The notion paralyzes us, but doing the best we can, this is possible. I

Misfortunes make us wise

Keep your warm hearts, your gentleness, and your courage. These will do just as well as magic.

In this life," he went on, "you got to see what is, as you might say, and then face up to what you wish there wasn't.

So maybe my own life is not so drastic and dreadful...maybe I am just like all those other girls who have come before me with their oily T-zones and random terrible days and bittersweet triumphs, the world billowing out behind them.

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?

He who laughs, lasts!

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

The weaklings were winnowed out by these great storms, and the chastened souls of those who survived knew little of pleasure.

There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope.

Oh, man," said Jack. "Everyone was nice to us when we looked rich. Now it feels like the whole world's against us.

People try to save special things but they did not always succeed. Rare books from a library were moved to a Pavilion building. When the Pavilion building caught fire, all the books burned. The building that originally held them did not burn at all.

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

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