Quotes about Resilience

Pain is the price we pay for being alive. Dead cells—our hair, our fingernails—can't feel pain; they cannot feel anything. When we understand that, our question will change from, "Why do we have to feel pain?" to "What do we do with our pain so that it becomes meaningful and not just pointless empty suffering?

I'm not perfect, ... But i'm enough.

We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

How many times do you have to get hit over the head until you figure out who's hitting you.

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.