Quotes About Resilience

we live to fight another day

There is no strength higher than overcoming carnal desire.

It has become a settled principle that nothing which is good and true can be destroyed by persecution, but that the effect ultimately is to establish more firmly, and to spread more widely, that which it was designed to overthrow. It has long since passed into a proverb that "the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church."

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.

There is not love of life without despair about life.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

I had survived a long war with the Mob and the government. I told myself I was not going to be defeated by a couple hack writers and a Mafia rat.

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

We cannot dispair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings.

We [Jews] have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity

You never fail until you stop trying.

I hope to die in the saddle seat.

The expense of making yourself panicked, enraged, and self-pitying is enormous. In time and money lost. In needless effort spent. In uncalled-for mental anguish. In sabotaging others' happiness. In foolishly frittering away potential joy during the one life—yes, the one life—you'll probably ever have.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.

Emotional Vampires never grow up. Throughout their lives, they see themselves as victims of fate and the unpredictability of others. Stuff happens, and they just respond to it. As a result, they have no opportunity to learn from their mistakes, and they just keep on making the same ones over and over.