Quotes about Resilience

The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement. One elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest."

Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Let us be like that unafraid bird Lighted upon a twig that swings Feeling it yield but singing on— For knowing that he has wings!

Criminal Minds, All You Can Eat: "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

To array a man's mind and will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.

It's because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Life is 100% what happens to me and 90% of how react to it.

Life breaks all of us sometimes…but…some grow strong at broken places.

Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.