Quotes About Resilience

don't believe I will get better," Daudet wrote, ". . . yet I always behave as if my damned pains were going to disappear by tomorrow morning.")

I got sick the way Hemingway says you go broke: "gradually and then suddenly.

You cannot muscle your way to health when you are chronically ill. Rather, one way of coming to terms with an amorphous systemic disease is recognizing that you are sick, that the illness will come and go, and that it is not the kind of illness you can conquer.

Alphonse Daudet observes in In the Land of Pain. "Everyone will get used to it except me.

As the surgeon Atul Gawande wrote of the medical profession, "Nothing is more threatening to who you think you are than a patient with a problem you cannot solve.

A doctor's job, like a gambler's, is intimately tied up with failure; the house always wins over time.

Without answers, at my most desperate, I came to feel (in some unarticulated way) that if I could just tell the right story about what was happening, I could make myself better. If only I could figure out what the story was, like the child in a fantasy novel who must discover her secret name, I could become myself again.

As the chronically ill know, to be alive is to be in uncertainty.

Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.

True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak. It is born of strength and understanding.

For a flexible person, it is impossible not to reach his destination, because by using his ability to be flexible he can easily define a nearer new destination.

Longevity is not whether or not you break, it is how well you recover and repair when you do.

Some people climb mountains, others get to have heart surgery.

*Every man's life is a train made of straw which tries to move on a track made of fire! The very next stop is ashes and dust.

A horrible night might be hidden in a beautiful morning!

A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely!

A little happy house is the strongest castle in this whole universe!

A lonely Autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife of security!

A man who can be happy with the crumbs of light in the dark corridors of life infinitely deserves the brightest Sun!

A man who smiles when he falls gives the Devil a good slap!

A man without courage is a boat in a frozen lake! Get rid of your fears!

A rotten ship is not afraid of the storms!

A single smile of man is a thousand defeat of the devil!

All the sands of the world even when they unite together cannot create the hardness of a single rock!