Quotes About Resilience

After every storm the sun will smile for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

Folks began to sit down along the curb, leaning against the odd assortment of old vehicles folks had retrofitted to function again after the EMP burst had blown out the electronics.

Promote a troublesome thorn up and out of the way if you cannot crush him, and then, once gone, impose whatever was planned in the first place.

To be sure, the Finnish soldier was aware of the numerical odds against him, but he rendered those odds less terrible by cracking jokes about them: "They are so many, and our country is so small, where will we find room to bury them all?

So many small nations had been bullied into humiliating surrender, the dictators had won so many cheap victories, that idealism had been left starving....

Rats, even dead rats, are as familiar to sailors as sunburn. Or fleabites.

where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

She cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop, and she didn't like that at all.

What do you mean, what's the matter with him? Nothing's the matter with him, everything's the matter with him, the same as it is with everybody else. He's just fine. He gets overwhelmed now and then, and he doesn't know how to say what he feels or means, so he cries and runs off a little, trying to find out where to go, for God's sake. Where can you go?

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

Women's weapon, water-drops

Patch grief with proverbs

Hanging and Riving goes by destiny.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Yield not thy neckTo fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mindStill ride in triumph over all mischance.

I'll queen it no inch further,But milk my ewes and weep.

Mine enemy's dog,Though he had bit me, should have stood that nightAgainst my fire.

What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.