Quotes About Resilience

If I believed people who told me you can't make a living as a writer, I wouldn't be making a living as a writer.

he was either ill or very old; he'd taken the stairs like he was climbing a mountain with a Sherpa on his back.

Anyone, anyone can break loose from his chains. That courage, no matter how deeply buried, is always waiting to be called out. All it needs is the right coaxing, the right voice to do that coaxing, and it will come roaring like a tiger.

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.

Beware of the easy path. Knowledge grows only through challenge.

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.

En realidad debería aceptar el dolor y darle alguna utilidad. A fin de cuentas, el dolor no es más que otra forma de energía. Caracás

There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin-- I will die in the last ditch.

Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity, and consume your own smoke with an extra draft of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

the person who takes medicine must recover twice,once from the disease ,and once from the medicine.

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

One of the first essentials in securing a good-natured equanimity is not to expect too much of the people amongst whom you dwell.

Imperturbability means coolness and presence of mind under all circumstances, calmness amid storm, clearness of judgment in moments of grave peril, immobility, impassiveness, or, to use an old and expressive word, phlegm.

Job, behold the Snout: Even when the pond dries up, it is not alarmed. It remains confident, even above the face of the waters. Do not mock the Snout, Job, for in three hundred and seventy-five million years, its face would be your own.

Who can refute a sneer?

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

No Cross, No Crown.

In our sleep, pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom

I just lost 'Hope,' that's all.

To keep up with the times these days, it seems you have to be a little bit demented. — "William F. Kinderman".

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.