Quotes about Resilience

I'm a work horse.

Because we're human beings, we're not always going to be perfect.

I'm trying to... stay humble and keep doing what I do.

I think some of the funniest and most artistic people I know are the ones who had a hard time at school. They often have humility and artistry. So, as much as I feel bad for kids who have to go through a rough childhood, I believe that if they can turn it around, it's going to make them better people later on.

The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.

Laughter is a rescue.

As long as one suffers one lives.

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

People change,' she said 'Oh, no they don't. Look at me. I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton. That's human nature.

I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath, as we stumbled up through the dung and the cramped and stinking huts to our lampless sleeping place among the rats. It was the worst one need fear, and it was bearable because it was inescapable.

You think you are so bad,' she said, 'but it was only because you couldn't bear the pain. But they can bear pain - other people's pain - endlessly. They are the people who don't care.

If I could suffer like you, I could heal like you.