Quotes about Resilience

Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Hope does not deny the evil, but is a response to it.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be.

Actually, it's a survival trait," she finally concluded. "That's what it is. It is a human survival trait and without it we perish.

Hope," Jane said, "is what enables us to keep going in the face of adversity. It is what we desire to happen, but we must be prepared to work hard to make it so.

Archbishop Tutu once explained to me that suffering can either embitter us or ennoble us, and it tends to ennoble us if we are able to make meaning out of our suffering and use it for the benefit of others.

It was from a species long thought to be extinct—a species known only from the fossil record, a species that turned out to have survived for two hundred million years. Those trees, who came to be known as Wollemi pines, had been in that canyon, getting on with their lives, through seventeen Ice Ages!

She truly is a symbol of the resilience of nature—and a reminder of all that was lost on that terrible day twenty years ago.

Imagine—this gangly plant, which Darwin likened to a duckbill platypus of the vegetable kingdom, has survived as a species, unchanged, for 135 to 205 million years. Originally its habitat was lush, moist forest, yet it has now adapted to a very different environment—the harsh Namib Desert.

Whenever something comes into our life that hurts us, we do the decidin'—do I let this work for my good, as God intended, or do I let bitterness grow like a bothersome canker sore in my soul?

A sense of humor is a requisite to surviving in our demanding world.