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Quotes About Resilience

These men breathe hard but the committee has a voice of steel.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
The boy worked there about eighteen months, came home one evening with a shortness of breath. He said, "Mother, I cannot get my breath." Shirley was sick about three months. I would carry him from his bed to the table, from his bed to the porch. in my arms.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
And still go down. Now ladder-mouth; and the precipitous fear, uncertain rungs down into after-night. "This is the place. Away from this my life I am indeed Adam unparadiz'd. Some fools call this the Black Hole of Calcutta, I don't know how they ever get to Congress.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
What three things can never be done? Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone. The hill of glass, the fatal brilliant plain.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
Wherever we walk we will make Wherever we protest we will go planting Make poems seed grass feed a child growing build a house Whatever we stand against We will stand feeding and seeding Wherever I walk I will make
~ Muriel Rukeyser
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
~ Muriel Spark
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and dying as on a battlefield.
~ Muriel Spark
In short, and this is a highly important point to grasp, the depression is the "recovery" process, and the end of the depression heralds the return to normal, and to optimum efficiency.
~ Murray N. Rothbard
A believer is as the two pans of a scale, that whenever his faith increases his afflictions increase.
~ Unknown
1. Curved mirrors of symbolism metamorphoses. (Distortion of reality by imagination). 2. An indelible smile of the psyche, endowed with resentment for life. 3. Tears make the world transparent. 4. Insight anabolics are the basis of motivation. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich
~ Unknown
Even in the worst, there is something funny.
~ Unknown
Laugh at yourself, about your problems, fears, vices, shortcomings, failures, etc., make fun of everything connected with you, feel the evil comedy of reality. Laugh at yourself so you don't go crazy.
~ Unknown
Musin Almat Zhumabekovich
~ Unknown
True love is invulnerable, it will not be overwhelmed by treason, resentment, guilt, you still love, even if you are not loved or not loved. Such love is an independent feeling, it is a paradise energy, a warm, gentle light of sincerity. All whom you loved, all of them may appear in dreams, they turned into energy, they will be in your memory all life.
~ Unknown
Wash: I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!
~ Unknown
A believer is similar to a restless soldier in an endless battle.
~ Unknown
A leaf carried away with the stream of water, it can crash along the way, or go on to the darkest parts of the unknown ocean.
~ Unknown
A positive mindset counts in everything you do. Stay calm even after you've achieved your goals.
~ Unknown
Adaptiveness is the shortest road to happiness. Get used to everything around you.
~ Unknown
Africa has been brought back to its knees and this generation can't take it any longer.
~ Unknown
Are we not all chained down by our mood-swings sometimes?
~ Unknown
As a leader, I aim to be dynamic whenever necessity ask for it and adaptive to any change that occurs without a notice.
~ Unknown
At the end of the day, it would be wise to turn all of your focus and energy on achieving mental over physical strength.
~ Unknown
At this stage, some people might advise me to focus on pleasure and avoid any kind of pain—But where can we hide from pain when it finds us unprepared?
~ Unknown