Quotes About Resilience

Her life is crumbling and she's holding it together like a child protecting a sandcastle from the waves.

the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes.

Michael Leunig cartoon showing a tiny sad-eyed man with a noose around his neck. The rope was curled over a beam with a large bucket tied to the other end. As the man cried, his tears filled the bucket and lifted him higher and higher off the ground. Evie is that figure, standing on her tiptoes, filling a bucket with

Now it was time for others to take up the battle because he had given up trying to save or change the world. He simply wanted to survive it.

Wealth lost, something lost; Honor lost, much lost; Courage lost, all lost. German proverb

Ricordati che anche l'ora peggiore della tua vita non dura più di sessanta minuti.

People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Losing a child is beyond comprehension. It defies biology. It contradicts the natural order of history and genealogy. It derails common sense. It violates time. It creates a huge, black, bottomless hole that swallows hope.

At this time of year, when the temperature drops, I wear non-slip shoes, a woolen scarf and a permanent frown. Forget about global warming. As I get older the world gets colder. That's a fact.

Her pale fat throat seems to have a fist inside it, moving up and down.

There's plenty of serious stuff that works to cord the muscles of literary merit. But

Every day may not be good,' he said, 'but there is something good in every day.

Wealth lost, something lost; Honour lost, much lost; Courage lost, all lost.

Remember, Joseph, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes.

the blackest hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes.

life is a three-course meal occasionally seasoned with shit but still edible.

The world is getting faster just as I'm getting slower. I can't keep up so I've stopped trying.

Grow spiritually and fight the cancer at the same time—you can't go wrong.

Justin Butterfield of Illinois, a Federalist-turned-Whig, said of the Mexican-American War, said, "I opposed one war and it ruined me. From now on I am for war, pestilence and famine.

The greatness of Intel is not that it is smarter than other companies (though it may well be) or that it is too clever and competent to make a false move (we've just seen a stunning example of the very opposite) but that it has consistently done better than any company, perhaps ever, at recovering from its mistakes.

They never confessed that somewhere between the ambushes and booby traps and humping in the glaring sun, they lost hope. Somewhere in the blackness of the night, they lost faith. And in the end, there was nothing to separate them from the devil.

The bigger the bad guy, the bigger the obstacles that are thrown in your path, the bigger the reward for you. Do

Only a more Savage Nation can survive.

You have to gnaw the bone that's thrown you.

You told me it was a mistake to fight the scarred warriors. They were the survivors.