Quotes About Resilience

The randomness of cancer is often very hard to accept.

It's better to be fooled a hundred times than never to look.

Sometimes it is good to have things happen to you outside of your control. There are parts of yourself you would never discover otherwise.

People can be hurt so badly that they choose to just stop in their tracks.

Nonsense," said another voice-Dr. Rust. "We're librarians. When we don't find what we're looking for in the first place we look, we don't give up. We keep looking.

Did you get it back?" "Of coarse, the very next day. And even if I hadn't-because there have been things I've been asked to give up for good... Well, over the years here I've learned that sometimes a great loss is also a great gain." Under the slowly swirling freckles, Doc's face looked infinitely sad. Somehow I didn't find that reassuring.

They want the centurions not so much to be venturesome and daredevils, as to be natural leaders, of a steady and reliable spirit. They do not so much want men who will initiate attacks and open the battle, but men who will hold their ground when beaten and hard-pressed, and will be ready to die at their posts.

The test of true virtue in a man surely resides in his capacity to bear with spirit and with dignity the most complete transformations of fortune

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.

Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.

Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you.

Let the night come. We are not afraid.

Don't ask for advice too much. Go with you, as gritty as that might be at times.

It reminded me that illness will always be with you as long as life is with you. And tragedy will be with you too.

Was all the hardship there to demonstrate how unlucky I was, or was I actually a very lucky person given that I'd survived so much?

I knew I had to live because, well, I didn't have the imagination to think otherwise.

I have been through so much, I wanted to say, but the words were tangled in my throat.

I hate to exercise, I hate to meditate, I don't enjoy eating well, I never get proper sleep. I am not a poster child for wellness. I am a sick girl. I know sickness. I live with it. In some ways, I keep myself sick." "Sick" Porochista Khakpour

Another day working in the Borough of the Damned.

I want to exude strength and intelligence.

I'll often fail; but never willingly.