resilience in hardship Quotes

Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.

The solution to our suffering is our suffering!

The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.

Survival often feels like an indignity.

There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.

It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.

I cry and pray and try to find the positive or the lesson for my pain.

Trust reverses the detours of adversity into highways of destiny.

To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

In the enclave, the strong and the physically perfect survived, but if you were strong, you protected the weak until they had an opportunity to grow into their own power.

That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.