Quotes about Resilience
One day's experience had been the turning point in Joseph's life. Its terrible calamity had transformed him from a petted child to a man, thoughtful, courageous, and self-possessed.
— Ellen White
Wicked men may torture and kill the body, but they cannot touch the life that is hid with Christ in God. They can incarcerate men and women in prison walls, but they cannot bind the spirit.
— Ellen White
The highest evidence of nobility in a Christian is self-control.
— Ellen White
You may be perplexed in business; your prospects may grow darker and darker, and you may be threatened with loss; but do not become discouraged; cast your care upon God, and remain calm and cheerful.
— Ellen White
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
— Ellen Glasgow
There's times in my life when music has been an escape, the only thing that worked when everything else seemed broken, but at that moment I had nothing to escape from.
— Elton John
It's worth pointing out that Renate didn't just marry a gay drug addict. That would have been bad enough. But she married a gay drug addict whose life was about to go haywire in ways he hadn't previously thought possible.
— Elton John
when she was pregnant, so Nan was born in a workhouse. She never talked about it, but it seemed to have left her as someone nothing could faze,
— Elton John
No coward soul is mine,No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:I see Heaven's glories shine,And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.
— Emily Bronte
The American people did not choose this fight. It came to our shores, and started with the senseless slaughter of our citizens.
— Barack Obama
While we breathe, we will hope.
— Barack Obama
When I stopped trying to block my sadness and let it move me instead, it led me to a bridge with people on the other side." … I learned that sadness does not sink a person; it is the energy a person spends trying to avoid sadness that does that.
— Barbara Brown Taylor