Quotes about Resilience

Knitting is the saving of life.

she] might have been a shell, and his words water rubbing against her ears, as water rubs a shell on the edge of a rock.

How terrible old age was, she thought; shearing off all one's faculties, one by one, but leaving something alive in the centre.

She must admit that she felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance.

Knowledge comes through suffering.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

By the grace of God and by keeping busy making life better for others. That is how women always get through the hard parts of life.

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

Half of life's problems disappear when one's head is healthy.

Facing a situation head on was the only way to deal with anything. I learned the lesson early.

God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb.