Quotes about Resilience

The breaking of the harmony was pain, was brutal anguish, but the harmony kept rising above the pain, and the joy would pulse with light, and light and dark once more knew each other, and were part of the joy.

The better word, of course, is joy, because it doesn't have anything to do with pain, physical or spiritual. I have been wholly in joy when I have been in pain—childbirth is the obvious example. Joy is what has made the pain bearable and, in the end, creative rather than destructive.

You must once and for all give up being worried about successes and failures. Don't let that concern you. It's your duty to go on working steadily day by day, quite quietly, to be prepared for mistakes, which are inevitable, and for failures.

Love. That's what makes persons know who they are. You're full of love, Meg, but you don't know how to stay within it when it's not easy.

In this fateful hour, it was herself she placed between us and the powers of darkness.

John looked up from where he was crouched beside the fire, feeding it little bites of driftwood, and said, 'We'd better decide who wants hot dogs and who wants hamburgers because we haven't got too much time.' Everybody began talking about food, and things were better. There's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

Nothing is hopeless. We must hope for everything.

God doesn't plan the horrors. They happen. But God can come into them.

believe God can come into the terrible things and redeem them.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

Don't be bitter. Remember Lot's wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what it is you have to do. [To his wife Betty Shabazz]