Quotes About Resilience

Because life's too short to blush, I keep my blood tucked in.

Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.

Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.

Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by-the-way?

I was born bad and I never have recovered.

How profoundly grateful I am for the temperament which saves me from the wretched fate of those poor creatures who never find their bearings, but are tossed like dried leaves hither, thither and yon, at the mercy of every event which o'ertakes them; who feel no shame at being vanquished, or at crying out at the common lot of pain and sorrow; who never dimly suspect that the only thing which survives is the resistance we bring to life and not the strain life brings to us.

Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened. And if you can't do that, force a smile on your face and sob into your pillow later.

Being happy means you've decided to accept the imperfections and get on with it anyway.

I should have been braver myself, shown you it's okay to get hurt along the way.

Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow.

If we could live without suffering, we'd find no peace in heaven.

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day

Everyday may not be good, but there's something good in every day.

Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.

The thing is to be happy,' he said. 'No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, you're just there, going along easy in the world.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

I knew you were in charge of me but my mind broke on its own.

I didn't care much what happened to me, so chance didn't matter.

And if you're referring to your anguish, it's just a thing. The shape of a trailor, a wheel, or a knife. Leave the details of your life and find another one.

I wish you didn't have to go through things I've been through.

Your phantasmagoric wound has closed.

though suffering rises up and shames me.