Quotes about Resilience
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
— Rob Bell
It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5)
— Rob Bell
At the point where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.
— Robert Brault
Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.
— Robert Brault
Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.
— Robert Brault
It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.
— Robert Brault
It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.
— Robert Brault
It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days — you just have to be a little more cockeyed.
— Robert Brault
Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise.
— Robert Brault
People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.
— Robert Brault
Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.
— Robert Brault
Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?
— Robert Brault