9 Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes on Resilience

Lois McMaster Bujold quotes on resilience

11. But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

18. Live, and so confound our enemies.

20. Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.

23. Welcome to Barrayar, son. Here you go: have a world of wealth and poverty, wrenching change and rooted history. Have a birth; have two. Have a name. Miles means 'soldier,' but don't let the power of suggestion overwhelm you. Have a twisted form in a society that loathes and fears the mutations that have been its deepest agony. Have a title, wealth, power, and all the hatred and envy they will draw. Have your body ripped apart and re-arranged. Inherit an array of friends and enemies you never made. Have a grandfather from hell. Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it. Always be a moving target. Live. Live. Live.

38. Total strangers trying to kill me make me feel right at home.

63. Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

95. If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

120. The good face pain. But the great--they embrace it.

124. Pain hurts, sir. I don't court it.