Quotes about Resilience

Sometimes I'd get mad because things didn't work out so well, I'd spoil a flapjack, or slip in the snowfield while getting water, or one time my shovel went sailing down into the gorge, and I'd be so mad I'd want to bite the mountaintops and would come in the shack and kick the cupboard and hurt my toe. But let the mind beware, though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

At least I had frost on my nose, boots on my feet, and protest in my mouth.

And so we picked up our bags, he the trunk with his one good arm and I the rest, and staggered up to the cable-car stop; in a moment rolled down the hill with our legs dangling to the sidewalk from the jiggling shelf, two broken-down heroes of the Western night.

Now he'd bought a new suit to go back in; blue with pencil stripes, vest and all—eleven dollars on Third Avenue, with a watch and watch chain, and a portable typewriter with which he was going to start writing in a Denver rooming house as soon as he got a job there.

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.

Always remember that a soldier's pack is lighter than a slave's chains.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

Do not let us speak of darker days let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Surviving Is the only war we can afford.

He who whets his steel, whets his courage.

My God, what have they done to you? This isn't a man, it's a broken kite.