Quotes About Resilience

On reflection, it happens so naturally you begin to feel or to tell yourself, 'Well, it would have happened anyway,' and you quickly recover from this wonderful experience of yours.

The faith of the undisciplined man cannot really be called faith. For if the armies, medicines or wisdom of man in which his faith is placed be taken from him, his faith and courage go with it. But from the disciplined one the whole world could be taken and yet he would remain faithful in the knowledge that the state of consciousness in which he abides must in due season embody itself.

New Hampshire State Motto

When people are feeling fabulous, they don't want to take any crap from anybody, particularly the cops.

Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Circumstance does not make a man, it reveals him.

Doers, on the other hand, act their way into feeling. After determining what needs to be done based on their goals, doers take action. They just do it. If they don't feel like taking action, they consider that emotion a distraction and take action in spite of it. They refuse to let their craving for short-term comfort divert them from their long-term goal and the blessings that go along with it.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

My mom was the picture of the blue-collar mom: Two and three and four jobs to make sure that me and my sister never needed, that was her thing.

I am drowning: what use would be looking back to the shore from which I fell?

Disability of the body does not mean disability of the heart and mind.

Truth never dies.

They were fortified with all the resilience that youth presents to an emotional shock. In the midst of murder and attempted suicide, they had managed, not only to behave with address and good sense, but all to fall in love with each other.

Atahmâ he Mara reih a hrana a tlô hai. A nypazy cha amâ duah papua lymâ aw.

Eima yna su vaih nata khih liata Mara reih pabohsa tuhpa ma na châ ma, a pahlei tuhpa ma? Keimo duasu tawh chyu ta he thliena he eima hmâh thei aw.

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

the state of the future will need to function more like the human immune system

Being single doesn't mean you're weak, it means that you're strong enough to wait for the right person.

We all have to find a story to live by and live inside, or we couldn't endure the certainty of suffering.

Window panes that rattled under the lash of the wind for two months on end, rain that leaked beneath the doors, her husband out and drinking, electricity cut off and the radio shut down, the boredom, the quiet and incredible loneliness - Margaret Looney would remember when she first discovered love and wonder at how immense it must have been to be lasting so long.

That's the thing about boys. Maybe just Irish boys. Boys have No Go Areas, they have an entire geography of places you can't go because if you do they'll crack open, they'll fall apart and you won't be able to put them back together, not ever. Girls know this. We know. Even love can't reach some places.

All these squalls to which we have been subjected are signs that the weather will soon improve and things will go well for us, because it is not possible for the bad or the good to endure forever, and from this it follows that since the bad has lasted so long, the good is close at hand. Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

She doesn't know poets can have ash in the soul, or that after so much burning there comes a time when there's nothing left but blowing away or phoenix-rising.

So she sees if she can drive him off. The MacCarrolls have that little perverse streak in them. She'd rather break her own heart than have it broken. There's an Irish logic to it.