#resilience

On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#american public #amplify #assets #communication #even

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#characteristic #desire #i #jewish #jewish people

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#change #growth #reality #resilience #change

The journey through another world, beyond bad dreams beyond the memories of a murdered generation, cartographed in captivity by bare survivors makes sacristans of us all. The old ones go our bail, we oblate preachers of our tribes. Be careful, they say, don't hock the beads of kinship agonies; the moire-effect of unfamiliar hymns upon our own, a change in pitch or shrillness of the voice transforms the ways of song to words of poetry or prose and makes distinctions no one recognizes. Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscans on the edge of useless law; we pray to the giver of prayer, we give the cane whistle in ceremony, we swing the heavy silver chain of incense burners. Migration makes new citizens of Rome. ↗

— Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

#generation #hope #palimpsest #resilience #sword-sentiments

I would enter the desert alone, to leave in the sand endless footprints only to be obliterated by the wind, to walk the same path each day expecting the same path tomorrow, and perhaps to cease wondering at the bloom and wither of lilies only to linger for death. But no, even in the desert, I would seek a new sanctuary, to contemplate a grain of sand in a sea of dryness... ↗

— Leonard Seet

#journey #leonard-seet #meditation-on-space-time #resilience #death

He's a million rubber bands in his resilience. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#his #million #resilience #rubber

My message has always been about resilience. ↗

— Dave Pelzer

#always #been #message #resilience

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#compassion #courage #great #nation #resilience

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#life #resilience #truth #age

No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear. ↗

— Greg Kincaind

#endurance #inspirational #persistence #resilience #courage