Quotes About Resilience

See? There it is again. My flame in the dark.

I'm serious. She asked me what my greatest strength was. I said getting along with people." "That's not bad," I admitted. "Then she asked what my greatest weakness was. And I said, 'Where should I start?" "Adrian!" "Stop saying my name like that. I told her the truth. By the time I was on the fourth one, she told me I could go." I groaned and resisted the urge to beat my head on the steering wheel.

Feel guilty. Mourn this. But move on. Don't let it destroy you. Forgive yourself.

What hope is there?" I asked. "If even angels fall, what hope is there for the rest of us?" "There isn't," he said. "We're on our own. And we have to make the choices we think are best for our own survival.

Don't beat yourself up over what you could have or should have done. The past is gone. Move on to the future.

Watch it." he said at last. "I can make your life miserable." I gave him an icy smile. "You already have, and that's why i've got the advantage. You've done your worst but you haven't seen what i can do yet.

Rose: "Wow. You beat up your dad. I mean, that's really horrible... what happened. But, wow. You really are a god."... Dimitri: "What?" Rose: "Uh, nothing.

Adrian. He was the reason I was able to survive in this prison. And he was also the reason I was here in the first place.

imperfection would get me farther than perfection.

I didn't care that we were out in public. I didn't care that he was Moroi. All that mattered was that he was Adrian, my Adrian. My match. My partner in crime, in the long battle I'd just signed on for to right the wrongs in the Alchemist and Moroi worlds. Maybe Marcus was right that I'd also signed myself up for disaster, but I didn't care. In that moment, it seemed that as long as Adrian and I were together, there was no challenge too great for us

We take what what we can get.

Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen." - Carter to Georgina

That's not fair," I said. "Georgina," he said simply. "We're in Hell.

Me? I didn't believe in hopeless.

Roza." his voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent...it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don't hesitate." I just barely saw his fist striking out toward my head...and then I saw nothing at all.

Just because things don't work out, it doesn't mean there aren't other people you can't love. Love is too big a thing for you to go without it in life.

Love in the real world doesn't usually work out the way stories make us think it should. We don't always get fairy-tale endings. People split up and move on. Just because you love someone doesn't mean you can't love someone else." - Georgina to Brandy

Wait for me. Be strong, and I'll be strong too. I'll fight my way out of whatever they've got in store. I won't forget you. I won't ever turn my back on you, no matter what lies I have to tell them. Our center will hold.

But listen to me when I say this. You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone - not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee - push you around.

I was so tired of being told reasonable, practical things whenever something went wrong with my life.

I could see her toughening up, working hard to put all those emotions away because she thought that's what it meant to be strong. I wanted to tell her that strength wasn't about hiding your feelings, that it was okay for her to feel this way after what she'd been through.

Don't worry know what you can't change. rest when you can so you'll be ready for tomorrows battle.

It's as easy as we choose to make it," he murmured, pressing his forehead to mine. "At least, this decision is. Nothing's truly easy, Georgina. Love and life . . . they're wonderful, but they're hard. We may mess up again. We have to be strong and decide if we can still go forward, even when things aren't perfect.

If you wanted to remold people, you had to break them down first.