Quotes About Resilience

We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." - Eeyore

Blue, life is full of horrible things. One must find something that makes one happy and stick to it.

But I can't stay here for a week!" "You can stay here all right, silly old Bear. It's getting you out which is so difficult.

Don't worry about me. Go and enjoy yourself. I'll stay here and be miserable.

By dint of waiting, he hoped his heart would wear out and stop beating. What other way was there to stop loving someone?

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Olga Rudge told a story about Wanda Landowska, the renowned harpsichordist. Landowska had been interrupted in mid-sentence by the arrival of friends and a fuss about tickets, and had come back after a quarter of an hour and continued her sentence from where she left off. 'Is it the working with different voices in the fugues etc. makes her able to keep all the threads in her hand separate and distinct?', Olga wondered, 'like in a way the cantos?

Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour,He stood and counted them and cursed his luck;And then the clock collected in the towerIts strength, and struck.

There, like the wind through woods in riot,Through him the gale of life blew high;The tree of man was never quiet:Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.

Mithridates, he died old.

In all the endless road you treadThere's nothing but the night.

Some seed the bird devours, And some the season mars, But here and there will flower The solitary stars, And fields will yearly bear them, As light-leaved spring comes on, And luckless lads will wear them When I am dead and gone.

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

But in me he saw at once a weak, yielding will. You can feel it in people at a mere glance—there's no need of words.

A boxer, like a writer, must stand alone.

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons.

We all save ourselves child, even if we are fortunate enough to have help along the way.

Judy went back to Paulie's place, but either he wasn't home or he wasn't answering his door. After banging on the door for four minutes, then waiting another ten, she decided she'd probably have to find someplace else to crash today She wished she'd taken the time to actually have a few friends.

I'll take hope over hopelessness everyday.

there's nothing like having to claw and scrape your way through a sea of molten lava to remind one to keep an eye on the details.

Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.

Lacking a pot, Pepys "shit in the chimney" twice one night, whereas the Yorkshire laborer Abram Ingham used his "clogg" [shoe] to "make water in." If all else failed, an Italian adage instructed, "You may piss a bed, and say you sweated."38

That is the saving grace of humor. If you fail no one is laughing at you.

So much of the Western tradition deals with the most despairing and angst-ridden emotions, but they're movies made for kids. It's as if America was trying to pass on an unpleasant but necessary lesson of life: that you were alone, and you needed to toughen up and shut up.