Quotes about Resilience
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
— Helen Keller
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
— Helen Keller
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
— Helen Keller
A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.
— Helen Keller
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
— Helen Keller
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
— Henri Nouwen
When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself "All is lost. I have to start all over again." This is not true. What you have gained you have gained....When you return to the the road, you return to the place where you left it, not to where you started.
— Henri Nouwen
When you're out of willpower, you can call on stubbornness.
— Henri Matisse
People lead lives of quiet desperation.
— Henry David Thoreau
I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
— Henry David Thoreau
'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
— Henry David Thoreau
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
— Henry David Thoreau