Quotes About Resilience

Trying to force a system to work beyond its capacity invariably causes turbulence and slows things down.

Time, on its own, heals nothing.

WITHOUT LAUGHTER, WHAT MAN of sense could endure either politics or war?

The world had broken; the pieces lay like shattered gold, spoil for the strongest.

Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal. - Herakles

Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

Nunca he entendido cómo llegaste tan lejos. ?Drogas. Drogado de pies a cabeza.

Sabes? Mi padre no le era fiel a mi madre. A ella le sabía muy mal, pero ahora ya está bien. ?No es lo mismo en una mujer. Es su sino y la naturaleza las ha hecho para aguantarlo, pero la naturaleza del hombre es distinta.

Solo hay un sobresalto peor que el totalmente inesperado, el esperado para el cual uno se ha negado a prepararse.

He was like a fine olive tree, which when its roots are checked one way will put them out another. Summer or winter, storm or calm, his soul sought justice and the end of wrong.

Often in those two months I said to myself, If I live, I will wipe this time from my mind; I cannot even bear the memory. Yet now I turn to it. He is gone; and all times when he was there seem like lost riches.

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now.

Heroism doesn't always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history. Sometimes a chicken can save a man's life.

You are a very sharp-tongued little girl," mother said, looking up at me. I am two inches taller than she is. "Unless you learn to curb yourself, there will be no parties for you, and no party dresses." This was the speach [sic] that broke the Camel's back. I could endure no more. "I think," I said, "that I shall get married and end everything." Need I explain that I had no serious intention of taking the fatal step? But it was not deliberate mendasity[sic]. It was Despair.

Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults- yet faults tear away the perfection in you.

It is a solemn sight to see so many Christians lying in their blood, some here, and some there, like a company of sheep torn by wolves, all of them stripped naked by a company of hell-hounds, roaring, singing, ranting, and insulting, as if they would have torn our very hearts out; yet the Lord by His almighty power preserved a number of us from death, for there were twenty-four of us taken alive and carried captive.

Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the friable nests of birds, completely intact and unharmed on the ground. That the featherweight survive the massive, that this reversal of fortune takes place among us — that is what haunts me. I don't know what it means.

All of the heroes you see falling down were filmed trying to stand up.

War, like death, is a great leveller, and mutual suffering and endurance had made us all friends.

and feel good about it. "What can you say to your irregular

THE BONUS CHARACTERISTICS are not common to all spirited kids, but if your child possesses any of them, you will need to be even more enterprising. Not only are you living with a child who is more, but you're also faced with the exhaustion of life with a child who is energetic, rarely falls into a predictable sleeping and eating schedule, expresses a strong resistance to new situations and things, and shares fewer rewarding smiles. Don't despair. These too have their potential.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't. —Howard Ward Beecher

Those with the deepest lows also have the loftiest highs.