Quotes About Resilience

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck-if you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left.

Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them

It is very annoying, when people notice your weak moments but never see your strong ones.

Sometimes women who aren't perfect are more interesting; they've done more, or learned something.

Kids need to learn that you need to feel bad sometimes. We learn through experience, and we learn especially through bad experiences.

Convinced that the world is against them, some young people have decided there's no point in trying, a viewpoint linked to failure. Countering this view will be one of the biggest challenges of the next decade.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

And there he lay in his bed, a broken man, worn out by a way of life which had been thrust upon him because of the antics of a wayward pig.

Trust Anne to turn a disadvantage into an asset!

She doubted not that in time she would grow as indifferent as others to these matters; but there was a softness within her which made it difficult for her. She must conform. She must be like those who lived about her. But for the time being she would refuse to think of the cruel things which could happen to men and women, merely because they spoke too freely. She wanted to be happy; therefore she would not think of anything that might make her otherwise. She

My only hope lies in my despair.

Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door...

Sometimes something awful could break your heart with beauty.