Quotes About Resilience

I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady.

Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword.

Those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them.

when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt—this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey and the Book of Common Prayer." For some people, that's truly enough. For others, more drastic measures are required.

Marriage survives... because it evolves.

I got a mother who wasn't having it. She wasn't having a minute of my drama, which is probably the luckiest thing that ever happened to me... she was not about to raise a little candy ass. Not on her watch.

What we're doing here tonight doesn't matter a bit in the cruel scheme of the world, but we're doing it anyhow.

One must bear what cannot be escaped.

This life is a tentative and difficult experiment. Sometimes there will be victory after suffering—but nothing is promised. The most precious or beautiful individual may not be the most resilient. The battle of nature is not marked by evil, but by this one mighty and indifferent natural law: that there are simply too many life forms, and not enough resources for all to survive.

Perder o equilíbrio às vezes por amor faz parte de uma vida equilibrada.

Live your life as you wish, my peach, but don't let it bitch up the bloody show.

You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be." This

not always been loyal and constant in my other loves. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby—I just don't care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it's mine. Because it looks exactly like me. It can barf all over me if it wants to—I just don't care.

You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

Here, I pause to offer a prayer for my gentle reader: May you never, ever, have to get a divorce in New York.

I am grateful to my mother, Carole Gilbert, for teaching me how to work my ass off and how to be resilient in the face of life's difficulties.

When you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch – there's not a chance.

stubbornness helps when it comes to the business of creative

The world ain't straight. You grow up thinking things are a certain way. You think there are rules. You think there's a way that things have to be. You try to live straight. But the world doesn't care about your rules, or what you believe. The world ain't straight, Vivian. Never will be. Our rules, they don't mean a thing. The world just happens to you sometimes, is what I think. And people just gotta keep moving through it, best they can." "I

Maybe because they didn't worry too much about me, I didn't worry too much about me, either.

there was dignity to be found in stoicism

You don't just get to leap from bright moment to bright moment. How you manage yourself between those bright moments, when things aren't going so great, is a measure of how devoted you are to your vocation, and how equipped you are for the weird demands of creative living. Holding yourself together through all the phases of creation is where the real work lies.

but truly there were times when the sadness of this world was scarcely to be endured