Quotes about Resilience

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Do you think that I would not have let you know that, if you suffered, I was suffering too: that if you wept there were tears in my eyes also: and that if you lay in the house of bondage and were despised of men, I out of my griefs had built a house in which to dwell until your coming, a treasury in which all that man had denied to you would be laid up for your healing, one hundredfold in increase?

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature

One cannot always keep an adder in one's breast to feed one, nor rise up every night to sow thorns in the garden of one's soul.

He did not wring his hands, as do Those witless men who dare To try to rear the changeling Hope In the cave of black Despair.

When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trails are often blessings in disguise.

He who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.

Even when one has been wounded by it, Harry? asked the duchess after a pause. Especially when one has been wounded by it, answered Lord Henry.

We artists are indestructible, even in a prison cell or a concentration camp I would be all right in my own world of art. Even if I had to paint my pictures with my tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.

Choosing to be happy and saying thank you to whatever circumstances befall you is one of the most radical things you could ever do.