Quotes about Resilience

Don't you worry your pretty little mind. People throw rocks at things that shine and life makes love look hard

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again.

I don't blame anybody.  I deserve it all.  Let the cold world do its worst; one thing I know—there's a grave somewhere for me. The world may go on just as it's always done, and take everything from me—loved ones, property, everything; but it can't take that. Some day I'll lie down in it and forget it all, and my poor broken heart will be at rest.

A man who goes around with a prophecy-gun ought never to get discouraged: if he will keep up his heart and fire at everything he sees, he is bound to hit something by and by.

I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened.

Life is planned with one principle objective to make you do all the particular things you particularly don't want to do.

Not because his troubles were one whit less heavy and bitter to him than a man's are to a man, but because a new and powerful interest bore them down and drove them out of his mind for the time—just as men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises.

Just at this juncture the boy felt a slow, fateful grip closing on his ear, and a steady lifting impulse. In that vise he was borne across the house and deposited in his own seat, under a peppering fire of giggles from the whole school. Then the master stood over him during a few awful moments, and finally moved away to his throne without saying a word. But although Tom's ear tingled, his heart was jubilant.

He felt much as a man might who had danced blithely out to enjoy a rainbow, and got struck by lightning.

Not a reproach passed her lips. She was too great for that - she was Joan of Arc; and when that is said, all is said.