Quotes About Resilience

You cannot ban books. People can find them".

I always had an attitude that whatever came my way, I'd overcome it. I wouldn't let it hold me back.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

Patience is...clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing.

Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.

A friend of mine who passed through a most severe trial, when I discussed it with him, he said simply, if it's fair, it isn't a trial.

We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.

Finally, we can accept this stunning, irrevocable truth: Our Lord can lift us from deep despair and cradle us midst any care. We cannot tell him anything about aloneness or nearness!....He who cannot lie, will atteast to our adequacy with the warm words, "Well Done.

He knows that having put his hand to the plow he must not look back, because when we are looking back, we are also holding back.

Giving up on God and on oneself constitutes simultaneous surrender to the natural man.

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory. - Jósef Pi?sudski

They carry grenades and will die rather than be captured,' Scar informed him. 'Problem?'Thorn enquired. 'It will wash off.

He held the post until the end of the war, an end that Leif Tronstad did not see for himself.

You have to fight for your freedom," he said. "And for peace. You have to fight for it every day, to keep it. It's like a glass boat; it's easy to break. It's easy to lose.

Dressed for the minus-thirty-degree temperatures at high altitude (wool underwear, two pairs of wool socks, a wool sweater, a brown leather jacket lined with sheep's wool, and heavy trousers), Roane crossed the cold, fog-ridden airfield and gathered with the other pilots and aircrews in the huge Nissen hut used for briefings.

Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.

Without the threat of suffering, we can't experience true joy.

The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

Show some fucking adaptability!

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.

Because people develop ADT in an effort to cope with the stresses in their lives, and because the symptoms actually help them in the short term, the symptoms are "sticky" and may solidify into firm habits, even when life slows and becomes less stressful.

Twenty-two-year-old Ona Judge, who was Martha Washington's personal servant, escaped from the President and First Lady of the United States in Philadelphia in 1796 after learning she was to be given away as a wedding gift. She married a free black man in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and managed to avoid falling prey to the attempts at recapture that George Washington attempted against her until he died in 1799.

Fannie Moore, interviewed in North Carolina in 1937, recalled that (as transcribed): "De 'breed woman' always bring mo' money den de res', [even the] men. When dey put her on de block dey put all her chillun aroun her to show folks how fas she can hab chillun."12 Mary L. Swearingen of Bastrop, Louisiana, paraphrasing her enslaved grandmother, said, "Whenever a woman was an extraordinary breeder, she was mated by the master to his own accord.