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Quotes About Resilience

O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live.
~ William Wordsworth
The sky is low, the clouds are mean, A travelling flake of snow Across a barn or through a rut Debates if it will go. A narrow wind complains all day How some one treated him; Nature, like us, is sometimes caught Without her diadem. - Beclouded
~ William Wordsworth
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
~ William Wordsworth
could have laugh'd myself to scorn, to find   In that decrepit Man so firm a mind.
~ William Wordsworth
The heavy weight of many a weary day Not mine, and such as were not made for me.
~ William Wordsworth
Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade   Of that which once was great is pass'd away.
~ William Wordsworth
As tempted more; more able to endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness.
~ William Wordsworth
Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
~ William Wordsworth
Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
~ William Wordsworth
What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind;
~ William Wordsworth
I roved o'er many a hill and many a dale With this my weary load, in heat and cold, Through many a wood, and many an open ground, In sunshine or in shade, in wet or fair, Now blithe, now drooping, as it might befal, My best companions now the driving winds And now the trotting brooks and whispering trees And now the music of my own sad steps, With many a short-lived thought that pass'd between And disappeared.
~ William Wordsworth
Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist.
~ William Young
I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.
~ Willie Aames
Well, long way from home and, Can't sleep at all. You know another mule, Is kickin in your stall.
~ Willie Dixon
It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.
~ Willie Nelson
I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.
~ Willie Nelson
I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.
~ Willie Nelson
There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before, and will be again. Heartbroke That's serious. Lose a few bucks. That's not.
~ Willie Nelson
When it's on us, seems like the storm will never pass. But it always does.
~ Willie Nelson
I fly a star ship across the universe divide and when I reach the other side; I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can. Perhaps, I may become a highwayman again or I may simply be a single drop of rain but I will remain and I'll be back again and again and again and again and again and again.
~ Willie Nelson
If at first you don't succeed…fuck it!
~ Willie Nelson
I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.
~ Willie Nelson
A lot of people make money off of fear and negativity and any way they can feed it to you is to their benefit in a lot of ways. You can't avoid it completely; you have to be open enough that shit doesn't stick on you, it goes through, because you are gonna be hit and bombarded all the time with negativity... You just let things go on through without trying to stop them or block them.
~ Willie Nelson
Memories remind us that every moment of our lives, even the most tragic, have contributed to our strength. We've gotten through. We're still here.
~ Willie Nelson