Quotes About Resilience

When you take too many of your critical hits in one place, that place can no longer hurt you.

Yet still this tree has a secret tucked into the thin, living cylinder beneath its bark. Its cells obey an ancient formula: Keep still. Wait. Something in the lone survivor knows that even the ironclad law of Now can be outlasted. There's work to do. Star-work, but earthbound all the same.

The past tries to kill her—all the people they were or had hoped to be.

But the spruces pour out messages in media of their own invention. They speak through their needles, trunks, and roots. They record in their own bodies the history of every crisis they've lived through.

TWENTY SPRINGS is no time at all. The hottest year ever measured comes and goes. Then another. Then ten more, almost every one of them among the hottest in recorded history. The seas rise. The year's clock breaks. Twenty springs

After two decades with his shoulders up near his ears, bracing for this hammer fall, his long flinch is over at last.

Quédate quieto. Espera. Algo en el solitario superviviente sabe que se puede resistir más allá de la irrefutable ley del Ahora.

Let other trees do the work of the world. Let the Beech stand, where still it holds its ground

But he'd survived his mother's death. I figured he'd survive my best intentions.

couldn't imagine Robin toughening up enough to survive this Ponzi scheme of a planet.

Nothing in the years to come can do worse than she was ready to do to herself.

A good answer is worth reinventing from scratch, again and again.

It's what his muscles know, especially that largest muscle in his inventory—his soul.

To hope, which finds roots in the most infertile of soils.

viruses never go away, they only hide

People want to think of a food tradition as something that would continue unchanging and timeless, unless some outside force knocked things askew.

The Japanese will not crack. They will not crack morally or psychologically or economically, even when eventual defeat stares them in the face. They will pull in their belts another notch, reduce their rations from a bowl to a half bowl of rice, and fight to the bitter end. Only by utter physical destruction or utter exhaustion of their men and materials can they be defeated. That is the difference between the Germans and the Japanese. That is what we are up against in fighting Japan.

It took Drake more than a year to find someone to drill his well. One salt-well driller after another refused him or failed to appear when promised. His standards were high.

Man is not satisfied with a happy idyllic life: he has the need to fight and to encounter danger.

a Tennessee Eastman employee was moved to immortalize anonymously in verse: In order not to check in late,2236 I've had to lose a lot of weight, From swimming through a fair-sized flood And wading through the goddam mud. I've lost my rubbers and my shoes Perpetually I have the blues My spirits tumble with a thud Because of all this goddam mud. It's in my system so that when I cut my finger now and then Instead of bleeding just plain blood Out pours a stream of goddam mud.

the ordeal of developing new selves will not be seriously entertained, much less embarked upon, until [people] are forced into it by the partial destruction of their former selves.

Walk on, walk on With hope in your heart And you'll never walk alone

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

Jesus praised faith and trust – even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart.