Quotes about Resilience

There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.

I gave up apologizing for myself a long time ago. What should I say? That I'm sorry to be that which I am?

If you carry your past into battle you are riding to your death.

If you dont like to be laughed at dont fall on your ass, said Rawlins.

I know they was families got thowed off their farms back in the thirties by the TVA and come to Anderson County and got thowed off all over again. They was even families had been removed from their homesteads in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the thirties, TVA in the thirties again, and the atom bomb in the forties. By that time they didnt have nothin.

They was some of em wound up just livin in the woods like animals. And that was a cold winter, too. People would see em crossin the road at night in the carlights. Whole families. Carryin blankets. Pots and pans. People tried to find em. Take em some flour and meal. Coffee. Maybe a little sidemeat. I think about those children. I do yet.

Suffering is a part of the human condition and must be borne. But misery is a choice.

Man has made such a mighty struggle to feel at home on the face of the earth, without even yet succeeding.

Having suffered so much, the capacity for suffering had to some extent left him.

And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habits, to have new little hopes.

Goodness, man, don't be so lachrymose.