Quotes About Resilience

It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.

We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.

I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.

You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete stranger will unstitch you.

Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.

Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.

There can be no greater act of kindness than to help others when your own world has been destroyed.

Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb.

I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal parent, to throw up a little breastwork in the shape of a lie.

Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.

Kindness was the last thing she needed. She had to stay in the icy place, the numb place, and their warmth threatened to melt her just when she needed the cold.

Though thou wert scattered to the wind, Yet is there plenty of the kind.

It's kindness that helps people cope with a crisis.

I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.

Like most, I was a mix of good and bad, anger and protectiveness, kindness and pride. But right now, I had only strangled fear and the promise of revenge.

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions.

I'ma forgive all the people that took my kindness as weakness. I'ma forgive anyone who never hit me back. I'ma forgive all ya'll. I won't forget.