resilience

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
b0ce57b	There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.	truth resilience ruins	Sophie Kinsella
6b287f0	Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.	strength life inspirational resilience forgiveness	Steve Maraboli
81e49cb	The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.	strength resilience	Robert Jordan
5997816	What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment.	perseverance inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational commitment resilience	Roy T. Bennett
edccec7	The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.	resilience	Jodi Picoult
45f7c91	No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.	persistence love inspirational endurance labor resilience christmas practice	Greg Kincaid
1cf7d01	"You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries. Does my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard 'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines Diggin' in my own back yard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise	resilience	Maya Angelou
f2c1074	It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.	people humanity resilience	Bram Stoker
3875ef4	Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of 'somedays'. Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English.	writing resilience diligence talent discipline creativity	Glen Cook
e43c144	Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.	resilience smiles worry	Libba Bray
70c84e6	I did not tell you that it would be okay, because I have never believed it would be okay. What I told you is what your grandparents tried to tell me: that this is your country, that this is your world, that this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.	coping racism resilience racism-in-america	Ta-Nehisi Coates
befb733	Perhaps what matters when all is said and done is not who puts us down but who picks us up.	middle-school resilience	Kate DiCamillo
965974b	You must bear losses like a soldier, the voice told me, bravely and without complaint, and just when the day seems lost, grab your shield for another stand, another thrust forward. That is the juncture that separates heroes from the merely strong.	war loss inspirational resilience julius-caesar	Margaret George
40d3be6	Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.	strength resilience manhood	Herman Melville
845f831	Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.	motivational life inspirational fortitude resilience	Herman Melville
33b6e97	There are two kinds of strength. Power and the ability to wield it is obvious, but resilience, the ability to resist power, is the other.	strength resilience	Raymond E. Feist
827ef7b	If you can dream and not make dreams your master	inspiration guidance resilience	Rudyard Kipling
324b71e	"I feel I'm at the end of something -- everything is going to be different -- and terrible." "That doesn't sound like you, you ride every wave." "There is one that will drown me."	metaphor the-end the-green-knight iris-murdoch giving-up dialogue resilience	Iris Murdoch
2ec7af5	It is not queer, and both desolating and comforting, how, with all associations broken, one forms new ones, as a broken bone thickens in healing.	resilience isolation	Wallace Stegner
57b5e48	Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order.	mankind manipulation resilience	Herman Melville
ff82a11	When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.	inspirational resilience	Sheryl Sandberg
bb62454	It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.	worship intimacy-with-god idolatry conventional-wisdom resilience materialism	Harold Bloom
17c965c	It's not just the body that must survive a jail term: the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it.	suffering spirit willpower resilience survival	Gregory David Roberts
375f331	The more it rains and blows, the more certain we are to have him.	determination resilience north-and-south resistance	Elizabeth Gaskell
ca4fb56	"Inside, the midwife was trying to get Socorro to open her mouth wide and let the pain come out. "Open your mouth," said Angelina, massaging Socorro's neck and shoulders, "and let out what you feel. Don't keep it in, querida, let it out." Socorro cried softly at first, but little by little she loosened up and she began to let out long, ear-piercing screams. "Good," said the midwife, "now breathe deeply, deeply, and then cry out again, letting all the pain go out of your body."	pain resilience pregnancy	Victor Villaseñor
a1daf31	The author cites researcher David Howard's idea of post-traumatic growth. Howard contends that some individuals faced with a traumatic event actually develop new strength.	renewal regeneration resilience	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
0c0a897	And I know that there are black boys and black girls out there lost in a Bermuda triangle of the mind or stranded in the doldrums of America, some of them treading and some of them drowning, never feeling and never forgetting. The most precious thing I had then is the most precious thing I have now--my own curiosity. That is the thing I knew, even in the classroom, they could not take from me. That is the thing that buoyed me and eventually plucked me from the sea.	struggle perseverance resilience curiosity frustration	Ta-Nehisi Coates
41618ed	In the months following James' death, on thought had returned time and again as she passed others in the street. What secrets did these people hold? What had they endured? She wondered how many people rushing in and out of shops, or on their way to their work, had lost a love, or known deep disappointment or grief, fear, or want, yet summoned the resilience to go on. Those lines across foreheads, those mouths downturned --- what were the ruts on life's road that wrought such marks, those signs of scars on the soul?	sympathy grief resilience	Jacqueline Winspear
df9d675	"Unluckier still was Guillaume Le Gentil, whose experiences are wonderfully summarized by Timothy Ferris in Coming of Age in the Milky Way . Le Gentil set off from France a year ahead of time to observe the transit (of Venus) from India, but various setbacks left him still at sea on the day of the transit--just about the worst place to be since steady measurements were impossible on a pitching ship.	humor resilience	Bill Bryson
b9bca1f	And they say, if ever a traveler plucks the wild parsley, and takes the bark of the hazel tree, and the secret toadstools, and mixes them with crocus from the patch of forest where the hero's last bones lie, a powerful spell will come to life. The hero will be reborn, not as he was before his destruction, but many times stronger in body and spirit; for he will be filled with the strength of earth, sea, and air. I think of the seven of us as the parts of one body. We may be torn asunder, and it may seem as if there is no tomorrow for us. We may each travel our own path, and we may fall and be broken and mend again. But in the end, as surely as the sun and moon make their way across the arch of the heavens, the strength of one is the strength of seven.	strength resilience strength-through-adversity	Juliet Marillier
0f53507	"Because two propositions can be true at once," he said. "Because the world is imperfect. Because we are imperfect. Because sometimes we're called upon to do terrible things. And because we define ourselves in dying, which is," he indicated by motioning with his head toward the arena, "what this is. Give us at least that."	resilience	Mark Helprin

There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

Sophie Kinsella

6b287f0

Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.

strength life inspirational resilience forgiveness

Steve Maraboli

81e49cb

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

strength resilience

Robert Jordan

5997816

What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment.

perseverance inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational commitment resilience

Roy T. Bennett

edccec7

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

resilience

Jodi Picoult

45f7c91

No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.

persistence love inspirational endurance labor resilience christmas practice

Greg Kincaid

1cf7d01

"You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries. Does my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard 'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines Diggin' in my own back yard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise

resilience

Maya Angelou

f2c1074

It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.

people humanity resilience

Bram Stoker

3875ef4

Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of 'somedays'. Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English.

writing resilience diligence talent discipline creativity

Glen Cook

e43c144

Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.

resilience smiles worry

Libba Bray

70c84e6

I did not tell you that it would be okay, because I have never believed it would be okay. What I told you is what your grandparents tried to tell me: that this is your country, that this is your world, that this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.

coping racism resilience racism-in-america

Ta-Nehisi Coates

befb733

Perhaps what matters when all is said and done is not who puts us down but who picks us up.

middle-school resilience

Kate DiCamillo

965974b

You must bear losses like a soldier, the voice told me, bravely and without complaint, and just when the day seems lost, grab your shield for another stand, another thrust forward. That is the juncture that separates heroes from the merely strong.

war loss inspirational resilience julius-caesar

Margaret George

40d3be6

Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.

strength resilience manhood

Herman Melville

845f831

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.

motivational life inspirational fortitude resilience

Herman Melville

33b6e97

There are two kinds of strength. Power and the ability to wield it is obvious, but resilience, the ability to resist power, is the other.

strength resilience

Raymond E. Feist

827ef7b

If you can dream and not make dreams your master

inspiration guidance resilience

Rudyard Kipling

324b71e

"I feel I'm at the end of something -- everything is going to be different -- and terrible." "That doesn't sound like you, you ride every wave." "There is one that will drown me."

metaphor the-end the-green-knight iris-murdoch giving-up dialogue resilience

Iris Murdoch

2ec7af5

It is not queer, and both desolating and comforting, how, with all associations broken, one forms new ones, as a broken bone thickens in healing.

resilience isolation

Wallace Stegner

57b5e48

Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order.

mankind manipulation resilience

Herman Melville

ff82a11

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

inspirational resilience

Sheryl Sandberg

bb62454

It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.

worship intimacy-with-god idolatry conventional-wisdom resilience materialism

Harold Bloom

17c965c

It's not just the body that must survive a jail term: the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it.

suffering spirit willpower resilience survival

Gregory David Roberts

375f331

The more it rains and blows, the more certain we are to have him.

determination resilience north-and-south resistance

Elizabeth Gaskell

ca4fb56

"Inside, the midwife was trying to get Socorro to open her mouth wide and let the pain come out. "Open your mouth," said Angelina, massaging Socorro's neck and shoulders, "and let out what you feel. Don't keep it in, querida, let it out." Socorro cried softly at first, but little by little she loosened up and she began to let out long, ear-piercing screams. "Good," said the midwife, "now breathe deeply, deeply, and then cry out again, letting all the pain go out of your body."

pain resilience pregnancy

Victor Villaseñor

a1daf31

The author cites researcher David Howard's idea of post-traumatic growth. Howard contends that some individuals faced with a traumatic event actually develop new strength.

renewal regeneration resilience

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

0c0a897

And I know that there are black boys and black girls out there lost in a Bermuda triangle of the mind or stranded in the doldrums of America, some of them treading and some of them drowning, never feeling and never forgetting. The most precious thing I had then is the most precious thing I have now--my own curiosity. That is the thing I knew, even in the classroom, they could not take from me. That is the thing that buoyed me and eventually plucked me from the sea.

struggle perseverance resilience curiosity frustration

Ta-Nehisi Coates

41618ed

In the months following James' death, on thought had returned time and again as she passed others in the street. What secrets did these people hold? What had they endured? She wondered how many people rushing in and out of shops, or on their way to their work, had lost a love, or known deep disappointment or grief, fear, or want, yet summoned the resilience to go on. Those lines across foreheads, those mouths downturned --- what were the ruts on life's road that wrought such marks, those signs of scars on the soul?

sympathy grief resilience

Jacqueline Winspear

df9d675

"Unluckier still was Guillaume Le Gentil, whose experiences are wonderfully summarized by Timothy Ferris in Coming of Age in the Milky Way . Le Gentil set off from France a year ahead of time to observe the transit (of Venus) from India, but various setbacks left him still at sea on the day of the transit--just about the worst place to be since steady measurements were impossible on a pitching ship.

humor resilience

Bill Bryson

b9bca1f

And they say, if ever a traveler plucks the wild parsley, and takes the bark of the hazel tree, and the secret toadstools, and mixes them with crocus from the patch of forest where the hero's last bones lie, a powerful spell will come to life. The hero will be reborn, not as he was before his destruction, but many times stronger in body and spirit; for he will be filled with the strength of earth, sea, and air. I think of the seven of us as the parts of one body. We may be torn asunder, and it may seem as if there is no tomorrow for us. We may each travel our own path, and we may fall and be broken and mend again. But in the end, as surely as the sun and moon make their way across the arch of the heavens, the strength of one is the strength of seven.

strength resilience strength-through-adversity

Juliet Marillier

0f53507

"Because two propositions can be true at once," he said. "Because the world is imperfect. Because we are imperfect. Because sometimes we're called upon to do terrible things. And because we define ourselves in dying, which is," he indicated by motioning with his head toward the arena, "what this is. Give us at least that."

resilience

Mark Helprin