Quotes About Resilience

When the hanging's done and the embers at the burning stake are grayed and cold, the conquered bodies of martyrs become the unconquerable ideas.

When the hanging's done and the embers at the buring stake are grayed and cold, the conquered bodies of martyrs become the unconquerable ideas

After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition, mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business, and to be successful.

O velho reapareceu, cinco minutos depois, já recuperado. Pigarreou: — Vamos pôr uma pedra em cima disso, que é mais negócio. O que passou passou. Está na hora de dormir, pessoal. Então

Don't pray for a different ending,' Grandpa said. 'Pray for the strength to bear what we were given.

A saint is just a sinner who fell down . . . and got up.

But God showed us that even in the midst of a crisis, we can look for His gifts of joy and peace.

Dedication to God gives women strength, no matter what others do.

don't want to come back as a seasonal interpreter," Anna said finally. Jenny looked crestfallen. "I don't blame you for that," Steve said. "Let me know when you'd like your last day to be and I'll get to work on the paperwork." "No, I'm staying," Anna said. "I want to come back in law enforcement.

It ain't gonna happen. You get a lot to learn about ranchers. We defend what's ours. From varmints and the goddam Park Service.

Anna's illusion of control had been smashed years before with the sudden, meaningless death of her husband. In the years since, she'd made an effort not to give in to the need to put the pieces back together, but to see and know and accept with some degree of grace that life is meaningless. There is no Grand Plan. Everything doesn't happen for the best. One can knock till one's knuckles are bloody and the door may not be opened.

Women could sit with grief, hold its hands, watch it pour from the eyes of friends and children, lie down beside it and help it to rest. Their delicate strength would weave a net strong as spun steel, keep the widow Castle from hitting bottom.

she couldn't decide which was worse: pending alcoholism, or remorseless unrelenting sobriety of the rest of her days.

Whoever had come up with the chant "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" had been an idiot.

You've got to stay in the game. Your luck's bound to change. Be a shame to miss it

Life is a meadow, you just have to find a way to pick the flowers.

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.

I know you've taken risks to do these things. Do Please be careful." "Don't worry about me," he said. "You've got enough troubles on your own plate, my word. But we'll come out all right, so long as we just keep alive, that's all we got to do. Just keep alive another two years, till the war's over.

If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

Then the patience borne of seventy years of disappointments came to his aid;

When life give you hundred reasons to cry, show life thousand reasons to smile.

As you walk through the interval of Thursday, Friday and Saturday, nothing disturbs you regardless of conditions, because you predetermined that which you would be on the Sabbath and that remains an unalterable conviction.

Nunca duerma acompañado con sentimientos de fracaso.