Quotes About Resilience

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets you may not find something to laugh about immediately.

Since the late 1980s and early 1990s hits, she and Harry had stumbled with unmemorable shows such as Women of the House and Hearts Afire.

Problems are like heavy wind,when they come accept it like a wind kissing you, your skin, which feels a cold touch!

The past doesn't define us. It's what we do with the present that determines our future.

Allison Brennan

deep inside she wondered--feared--what it would take to break her.

Why did she feel like she was still broken?

Some people are permanently broken. Like Humpty Dumpty, no one can put you back together again. ...But I'm not broken. I'm exactly the way I want to be.

She would survive because that was what she did. But the pain of a loss--the grief for something she could never have--would haunt her.

If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you're here to touch, those who believe in you.

Growing up shouldn't mean giving up.

Allison Gappa Bottke

Southern women see no point in the hard way. Life is hard enough. So we add a little sugar to the sour. Which is not to suggest Southern women are disingenuous cream puffs. Quite the opposite. When you are born into a history as loaded as the South's, when you carry in your bones the incontrovertible knowledge of man's violence and limitations, daring to stay sweet is about the most radical thing you can do.

We don't owe nobody nuthin', and we don't make no deals, we're swingin' chicks on motors, and we're man-eaters on wheels!

Each soul, each person, has to find their own way - learn their own lessons ... It's all those rough bits that make us stronger.

Can't is for pussies.

You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever...

God probably thinks it's worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.

No man would ever use both hands to hold a cup of tea, unless he was one day's march from the South Pole, with one chum dead in the snow, dogs all eaten and six fingers about to drop off. And even then he would look around the empty tent to check, in case anybody thought it was girly.

Dying is totally out of the question.

I might have felt broken, but at the end of it all, I didn't allow myself to break.

You have to know... What you have to know in all of this, through all of this, is that no matter how lost you are in this maze of hell and confusion, that in the end, I promise you, you will be found.