Quotes for Disasterous Times [Quotes]

With all the recent tragic flooding in Northern Colorado, it's hard not to feel sad and anxious. Rescue helicopters continually flying over, constant media coverage and the flooding as the topic of every conversation can really make me look for words of wisdom. That's why I like quotes. I've gathered several that I think are appropriate for this disaster in our own backyard. Stay strong Colorado, time heals, but sometimes you have to "give time, some time".

"Fall seven times, stand up eight." --Japanese proverb

 

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.--Daisaku Ikeda

 

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. --Edgar Allan Poe

 

"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope." --Martin Luther King

 

“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books." -John Lubbock

 

"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests." --Epictetus

 

“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.” ―E.B. White, Letters of E. B. White

And I'm not sure if I love this quote, or hate it.

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

--Arthur Golden