Quotes About Resilience

For some students, school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones who tell our children they can go from an Indian reservation to the Ivy League, from the home of a struggling single mom to the White House.

They fought to smile through the lines and the mud and the long hours, dancing under the stars and under the watchful eyes of their government, an Orwellian backdrop for a Rockwellian world.

It was a time of repurposing. "Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without," was the motto of the time.

The military may have been in charge, but the irrepressible life force that is woman—that was well beyond their control. The only thing that would be temporary was the war.

It may be truly said of her that —'Strength is born In the deep silence of long suffering hearts, Not amidst joy.

Life on the Reservation, he observed, was "particularly hard on those who lack a sense of humor.

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Two by two in the ark ofthe ache of it.

To speak of sorrow works upon it moves it from its crouched place barring the way to and from the soul's hall.

To speak of sorrow works upon it moves it from its crouched place barring the way to and from the soul's hall-- out in the light it shows clear, whether shrunken or known as a giant wrath-- discrete at least, where before its great shadow joined the walls and roof and seemed to uphold the hall like a beam.

The Broken Sandal" Dreamed the thong of my sandal broke. Nothing to hold it to my foot. How shall I walk? Barefoot? The sharp stones, the dirt. I would hobble. And– Where was I going? Where was I going I can't go to now, unless hurting? Where am I standing, if I'm to stand still now?

And we, frightened, bored, wanting only to sleep till catastrophe has raged, clashed, seethed and gone by without us, wanting then to awaken in quietude without remembrance of agony, we who in shamefaced private hope had looked to be plucked from fire and given a bliss we deserved for having imagined it, is it implied that we must protect this perversely weak animal, whose muzzle's nudgings suppose there is milk to be found in us? Must hold to our icy hearts a shivering God?

Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.

I wanted to say that rapist footballers and billionaires and hired hit men were the people who were making things difficult for me, not allies.

They were all performing the same miracle: repairing the insult of their own childhoods by making it all right for her. Murray

Sorg är ett ärr. Vävnaden blir hård och när såret går upp igen läker det dåligt.

Time is a very healing place, one in which you can grow.

Resilience – to bounce back from disappointments and problems.

After I had the Caesarean, I was told I had really strong stomach muscles and so would heal very quickly. And I did. I was up walking about within three hours. Six days after having her, I was out shopping and shortly after that I made it to David Walliams' wedding.

I know it's hard, but that's the way it has to be.

Don't stop believing in me, Brian. It was just a bad day.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." And remember the four things that never return: the spoken word, the speeding arrow, the wasted life, and the neglected opportunity.

Success by its very nature demands a period of overcoming, a process by which we become strong in broken places.

So it is with life. It takes some rough spots in your life to make you go your farthest.