Romanticizing Resilience Quotes & Sayings

Sell a stock only when you have found a new stock that is a 50% better bargain than the one that you hold. — John Templeton

You have the power to change your thoughts and your thoughts have the power to change your life. — Ron Willingham

I can see time, whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost. — Garth Nix

The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have. — Paullina Simons

Now there is a soft tap on the door. It's that man again. I don't know his name but I know it's him and nobody else because he always knocks five times, not four, not six, just five, and so softly too, like he fears he will make dents in the tin. Mother pulls the blankets over my head and then blows out the candle before opening the door. But what she doesn't know is that I am always awake most of the time this happens, because I am the hare. — NoViolet Bulawayo

I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes I make. — Shane McCrae

I didn't really want deadlines and editorial work. I wanted something mechanical and eight hours a day. So I went to work, thinking it was easy - ha, ha - on the complaint desk at the circulation department. — Katharine Graham

I can't stay friends with anyone who doesn't have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it right into the kitchen, too. They have a zest for life; the excitement of living. All of the great eaters I've known are also men of great wit. — Alan King

The white men in our colonies are too frequently the savages — Alfred Russel Wallace

There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream." — Taylor Branch

I caddied - more accurately, I drove the golf cart - for Father O'Leary and his friends throughout most of the summer of that year. I was a good caddie because I saw nothing when they passed the bottle of whiskey and turned a deaf ear to yet another colorful reinvention of the words "motherless son of a bitch from hell" when the golf ball betrayed them. — John William Tuohy

See what your misery is, what desires are causing it, and why you are clinging to those desires. And it is not for the first time that you are clinging to those desires; this has been the pattern of your whole life and you have not arrived anywhere. You go on in circles, you never come to any real growth. You remain childish, stupid. And you are born with the intelligence that can make you a buddha, but it is lost in unnecessary things. — Rajneesh