Bamboo Resilience Quotes & Sayings

I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them. — Stephen Colbert

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance. — Jodi Picoult

That was just it, wasn't it? That's what we were: dwellers all in time and space. Not old scraps of iron lashed together like a Meccano set by some invisible builder - not on your bloody life! — Alan Bradley

Her peculiarities must not be punished. — Johanna Spyri

That is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it. — Francis Schaeffer

The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain. — Andrew Marr

Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys. — Joe Lando

Anarchy has the flexibility to overcome many of the traditional problems of activism by focusing on revolution not as another cause but as a philosophy of living. This philosophy is as concrete as a brick being thrown through a window or flowers growing in the garden. By making our daily lives revolutionary, we destroy the artificial separation between activism and everyday life. Why settle for comrades and fellow activists when we can have friends and lovers? — Curious George Brigade

Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back even from the most difficult times ... Your ability to thrive depends, in the end, on your attitude to your life circumstances. Take everything in stride with grace, putting forth energy when it is needed, yet always staying calm inwardly. — Ping Fu

I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong. — Michael Phelps

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good — Sophocles

I do love the challenge of screenplays. They're so difficult, such an alien form. It makes them endlessly fascinating. Something I can't keep my fingers out of. — Stephen Graham Jones

Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love. — Stefan Molyneux

Eva walked along the wall that held all of Michael's books. Shelves of science texts - physics, astronomy, a full set of Darwin's writings, new works in biomedical genetics - these were at the bottom, and books on philosophy and religion at the top. A row of poetry books caught her eye. Rumi, Whitman, Neruda - impossible to comprehend what he might be looking for in the poets' works he collected. Love possibly, but not love the way she understood it. She couldn't wait until she would no longer have to study, but Michael - he loved to study even when he wasn't a student. — J.J. Brown

Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.' — Suze Orman

The school of suffering never graduates any students, so ask God to teach to you the lessons He wants you to learn. — Warren W. Wiersbe