Quotes About Resilience

Life's not some slot machine in an arcade with a sign that flashes up saying 'I'm sorry, you have been killed. Would you like another go?' But we might get put through the same test each time, get faced with the same situations until we've learned how to cope.

The history of the human race doesn't make happy reading, does it? I've seen a lot of sadness during my time, but I've seen seen a lot of things that have kept my faith in humanity alive too. If there were no bad things in the world, we'd have nothing to measure the good against, would we? The light can only shine in darkness.

None of us knows what we are capable of, until we have to do it.

Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.

He had a bullet in the arm—the nineth or tenth wound of his life—which had damaged the main nerve; but he seemed to rise above it. After a lengthy and painful operation, with only local anesthetics, he found it difficult to sleep, even with morphia;

And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.

So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

but when I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my fatherís household.”

Gad will be attacked by raiders, but he will attack their heels.

Joseph is a fruitful vine—a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.

The archers attacked him with bitterness; they aimed at him in hostility.

Yet he steadied his bow, and his strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

“Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us.

But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.

They worked the Israelites ruthlessly

Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.í”

The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”

Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaohís taskmasters had set over the people, were beaten and asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before?”

but the wheat and spelt were not destroyed, because they are late crops.)

Behold, the people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion, not resting until they devour their prey and drink the blood of the slain.”

However, the line of Korah did not die out.

But the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, putting us to hard labor.

May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze, and may your strength match your days.”