Quotes about Resilience
If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.
— Thomas a Kempis
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
— Ellen Glasgow
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
— Oscar Wilde
Too much happens ... Man performs, engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
— William Faulkner
Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.
— Anonymous
Be willing to have it so; acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
— William James
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
— Teresa of Avila
Suffering has always been with us, does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.
— Etty Hillesum
Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
— Charles Spurgeon
A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.
— Anonymous
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
— Lou Holtz