Quotes About Resilience

We shall me much less miserable together.' -Emma Darwin to husband Charles upon grief for loss of daughter Annie

After all, we're in the midst of life—well then, we must fight a good fight—and we must become men. —Vincent to Theo, May 31, 1877

I am not a fucking elf,' she said flatly.

Women help one another survive much in this world

To make things change, you need a strong heart.

But if there's one thing I've found in all my muddled wanderings, it's that we learn from our misfortunes just as much as from the good things that happen to us.

Everything that she valued had come to her through change, and through change she would one day lose everything. All except honor.

How many times can your heat mend until it's broken beyond repair? --Deborah King

stop dwelling on it? If you think about it day

I am not okay. Not at all and haven't been for some time. I did not tell her how discouraged I felt and that I was ashamed I was not more resilient and all the rest of it which included wanting a bigger life but that so far I had not been bold enough to make a bid for things I wanted to happen and I feared it was written in the stars that I might end up with a reduced life like hers...

Life falls apart. We try to get a grip and hold it together. And then we realize we don't want to hold it together.

As much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.

We have to mourn our dead, but we cannot let them take over our life.

I was flesh thirst desire dust blood lips cracking feet blistered knees skinned hips bruised, but I was so happy not to be napping on a sofa under a blanket with an older man by my side and a baby on my lap.

I am not okay. Not at all and haven´t been for some time. I did not tell her how discouraged I felt and that I was ashamed I was not more resilient an all the rest of it which included wanting a bigger life but that so far I had not been bold enough to make a bid for things I wanted to happen....

It's hard to write and be open and let things in when life is tough, but to keep everything out means there's nothing to work with.

It was true that I had no idea how to endure being alive and everything that comes with it.

Time has shattered, it's cracked like my lips.

That night, in the deep heat of Greece, devoured by mosquitoes and reminiscences, I was thinking about all the doors I had closed in my life and what it would have taken to keep them ajar.

she had gone too far into the unhappiness of the world to start all over again.

Afterwards, I will have to tie the trees to bamboo poles so the wind will not determine their shape. A tree cannot be given form by the vagaries of the wind.

She had no God to plead to for mercy or luck. It would be true to say she depended instead on human kindness and painkillers.

By?am cielesno?ci?, pragnieniem, ??dz?, py?em, krwi?, sp?kanymi ustami, pokrytymi p?cherzami stopami, otartymi kolanami, st?uczonymi biodrami, lecz by?am te? szcz??liwa, ?e nie drzemi? na sofie pod kocem ze starcem u boku i dzieckiem na kolanach.

I wasn't in the mood to talk. The mournful sound of the rubber wheels of the tea trolley squeaking on the lino floor was the right soundtrack for the end of the world. Sometimes the tea lady lost her grip and the trolley hit the corners of the walls and beds. It was the equivalent of waterfalls and parrots in my new terrible world.