Quotes about Resilience

What can't be helped must be endured.

She mourns for the future, as the past has taught her. And yet there is a rejoicing in her, persistent and unbidden as the beating of her heart.

But grief and griever alike endure.

You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

Let the fragments of love be reassembled in you. Only then will you have true courage. Hayden Carruth

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.