Quotes About Resilience

Pauline had once said to me, after she was through the worst of her stunned unhappiness, that if you behave as if you are all right, then one day you will be.

Better to start too slowly and build up," said a piece of text in italics, "than start too quickly and give up.

She wanted to walk until her body and mind were exhausted. Her snug house felt like a distant goal, a place she had to achieve through enormous physical effort.

How do you measure absence? There had been minutes that had become hours, and hours that had been like a desert with no horizon. There had been days dull and deadened as lead, and whole weeks when she'd had to force herself forward, inch by inch, across their expanse. How do you know when your heart is ready once more?

Even the most difficult things which you think you'll never get over you do get over, and in a trice you find they're behind you and you have to go on. New things await you.

La cosa, si disse, sarebbe passata perché nella vita le cose passano sempre, come in un fiume. Anche quelle difficili che ti sembra impossibile superare, le superi, e in un attimo te le trovi alle spalle. Devi andare avanti. Ti aspettano cose nuove.

To begin this Practice is easy. To persevere is difficult.

Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure.They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds.

Do not go about complaining how hard it is to live in this world. such behavior is entirely unworthy of a real man.

While the way we have come to live in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic might feel alien and unnatural, it is actually neither of those things. Plagues are a feature of the human experience. What happened in 2020 was not new to our species. It was just new to us.

This is very personal for me," said Nicholas Alahverdian. "I was a legislative aide for the House of Representatives at the same time I was in the night-to-night program. I was hurt in the group homes and shelters, and legislators saw the bruises and cuts and decided something needed to be done."

We'll hear from him somewhere down the road. He says all that training he received in his own personal boot camp has gotten him ready. It's gotten him ready for war. It's a war with people who are trying to destroy kids' lives, says my new friend Nicholas Alahverdian.

For a man who had been in action 120 times by the age of thirty-nine, Nelson was bearing up well,

some torn in half, some blinded and maimed, others mutilated beyond all recognition.

He had advanced so rapidly that for eight days in a row he had never once taken off his boots.

The Royal Sovereign reeled under the impact, heeling 'two strakes out of the water

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead -- and that one was myself.

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

Joy through suffering: this phrase (extracted from one of Beethoven's letters, where it actually referred to an uncomfortable coach journey) became the central motto of the Beethoven cult [..].

Criminals in Ecuador follow the mantra of the U.S. Marines: Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome.

Give parents the tools to nurture their child in infancy and the result will be a more self-confident and resilient individual for decades to come. It's far less expensive to coach parents to support children than to maintain prisons years later.

One of the reasons that so many women and girls are kidnapped, trafficked, raped, and otherwise abused is that they grin and bear it. Stoic docility—in particular, acceptance of any decree by a man—is drilled into girls in much of the world from the time they are babies, and so they often do as they are instructed, even when the instruction is to smile while being raped twenty times a day.

don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet. —NADIA COMANECI, Olympic gold medal gymnast