Quotes about Resilience

She was going about her life, taking her pleasures as she found them, suffering what was hers to suffer, doing what she had to do. She had about her no air of self-pity or complaint. And this could only have been because, in her own heart, she was not pitying herself or complaining.

After you have said "thy will be done," what more can be said? And where do you find the strength to pray "thy will be done" after you see what it means?

Whatever happens, those who have learned to love one another have made their way to the lasting world and will not leave, whatever happens.

Well, sir," Athey said, "where I used to be limber I'm stiff and where I used to be stiff I'm limber. Do you know what I'm talking about?

But there, in her diminishment, she seemed to resemble only herself, as if suffering finally had singled her out.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them.

Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.

She was the captain of her soul

You men,' she says. 'You durn men.

I can stand on my own feet; I don't need any man's mahogany desk to prop me up