Quotes about Resilience

We climb mountains because the valleys are full of cemeteries. The secret of survival is to climb, even in the dark, even when the climb seems pointless. The climb, not the summit, is the thing. And the great don't just climb mountains, they carve them as they go. Korczak

takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt.

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity—awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime.

They tried to bury us. They just didn't know we were seeds.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain. Some people go to such lengths to avoid pain that they give up on life. They bury their hearts, or they drug or drink themselves numb until they don't' feel anything anymore. The irony is, in the end their escape becomes more painful than what they're avoiding.

As appreciative as I had already been for their kindness, now I was astounded. In the midst of such heartbreak, this good couple had reached out to me in my pain. For the first time in a long while, I felt hope in humanity.

Fate does not bend for us-we must bend to it.

Sometimes the most whole people are those who come from the most broken circumstances.

Too many times we lose today's battles because we're still engaged in fighting yesterday's.

Life's book is written on the heart.

On n'est pas courageux si on ne connaît pas la peur.

Though adversity is the fertile soil in which the human spirit best grows, we loathe it still. I do not see how it can be otherwise, for no rational being seeks out pain and misfortune. Still, I cannot help but wonder if it is not somehow wrong to enjoy the fruit but curse the tree.