resilience Quotes

Tortoises can survive for weeks without food or water, easily long enough to float in the Humboldt Current from South America to the Galapagos Islands.

I can handle heckling on evolution because it's my own field.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.