Quotes About Resilience

There was loss wherever she looked, even in the world of her imagination.

The world wasn't perfect. Life wasn't perfect.

I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.

Sticks and stones may break my bones; But names will never hurt me When I die, then you'll cry for the names you called me.

Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.

There comes a point at which you stop giving things up. That is what i won't give up. None of it will i give up, for my beautiful sister Ivy who lies in bed. Ivy who used to be alive. Ivy who used to be. Ivy who used. Ivy who. Ivy-who-is-not-me. Not me. Not me. Not me.

And she tried to breathe.

The world should have stopped, but it didn't. The world kept on going. How can the world just keep on going? An earthquake in India kills a thousand people, and the world keeps on going. A famine in China kills a million people, and the world keeps on going. The twin towers of the World Trade Center buckle and fall, and the world, the world keeps on going.

My heart is breaking," I tell him, and it's the truth. Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.

We all walk around with a stone in our shoe, Younger." William T.

In the dimly lit basement hall of Saints Peter and Paul's Soup Kitchen, in the back alleys behind the bus station, in the urine-scented wards of the state mental hospital, I saw, firsthand, that it was possible to lose everything and still go on.

I steel myself to ignore his taunts and his coarse language. I no longer care what he says or does. It doesn't matter anymore. I am detached, contained in my own private world where he cannot reach me. It is my last refuge.

I will never give him the satisfaction of knowing how much he has wounded and enraged me. In my silence lies my strength.

I must bear it well as I may. As my sainted mother used to say, we never come to the kingdom of Heaven but by troubles.

A professional is a man who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.

A professional is someone who can do his best when he doesn't feel like it.

There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.

the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could be the bottom of the valley, the beginning of the long climb up the far slope, and when a man had once begun that climb he never looked back to that other side.

No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.

Music is the lubricant of the poor.

The boy who harnessed the wind

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave. ~King Solomon

Your real dreams are the ones your dreamed far before you were old enough to understand just how complicated they were to accomplish. How you respond when you find out is part of your character.

The soul has to learn how to respond when bad weather comes, as well as sudden bliss.