Quotes About Resilience

There is only one, one skill a women like you and me needs in life, and they don't teach it in school. Look at me. Only one skill. And it's this: tahamul. Endure.

without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her. Already Laila sees something behind this young girl's eyes, something deep in her core

Insa Maya continua sa poarte negru pentru ca exista un fel de doliu care nu se termina niciodata. Dupa cum exista si sentimente si amintiri care nu se sterg niciodata. Doar se estompeaza cu timpul. Nu mai incerca sa scape de trecut, din moment ce acesta era fundamentul pe care se ridicau prezentul si viitorul.

Las malas hierbas del desierto siguen con vida, pero la flor de primavera florece y se marchita.

the Tariq who did not get headaches, who had once said that in Siberia snot turned to ice before it hit

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.' Such grace, such dignity, such a tragedy.

I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on. Laila thinks of her own life and all that has happened to her, and she is astonished that she too has survived, that she is alive and sitting in this taxi listening to this man's story.

An Afghan who is afraid of dying is an Afghan who is already dead.

It was Homaira and me against the world. And I'll tell you this, Amir jan: In the end, the world always wins. that's just the way of things.

Perhaps, they reasoned, the poor, stringent lives

In cativa ani, aceasta fetita va fi o femeie care nu va cere niciodata prea mult de la viata, care nu va impovara niciodata pe nimeni, care nu se va plange niciodata de faptul ca are si ea regrete, dezamagiri, vise care i-au fost calcalte in picioare. O femeie care va fi ca o piatra de rau, indurandu-le pe toate fara sa se planga; taria ei nu va fi macinata, ci slefuita de tumultul care va trece peste ea.

People learned to live wifh the most unimaginable things. As would he. This was his life. This was his mother. This was his father. And this was him, even if he hadn't always known it.

If the blanket of man's fate has been woven black, even the waters of Zam Zam and Kausar cannot wash it white.

and I stare and think of the men inside preparing to fight and the women outside who always had to.

But as much as I tried, I couldn't forget my past. The events that had shaped me continued to weigh on my soul.

Take me instead,' Mrs. Dang said, holding on to my arm tightly. 'I can fight if I have to. Leave my boy out of this.' 'Not a possibility,' he told her. 'In the old days, whenever I tangoed with Death, I needed my men. Death is here right now, and your son will do just fine.

Personal Note: I'm trying really hard to keep a straight face at this point)

It was because of the way you treated me that I learned to be my own person, have my own opinion, stand my ground. It's at least partially because I survived you that I'm the person I am today.

The challenges in this place are real and sometimes very difficult, but I've learned to slow down and look for beauty in my days, for the mysteries and blessings woven into everything, into the very words we speak.

This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel. He'd had to fight hard to achieve what Paul simply took for granted.

All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now.

You're right, Norah, anything can happen, anytime. But what goes wrong isn't your fault. You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

we have a choice. To be bitter and angry, or to try and move on. It's the hardest thing for me, letting go of all that righteous anger. I'm still struggling. But that's what I want to do.

I just couldn't do it- break all the rules. Blow everything up. The world doesn't end, Bree said quietly. Amazing, but it really doesn't.