Quotes About Resilience

You're not so different from Kiernan anyway. You both have lived long enough to lose friends—too long, maybe. Perhaps that's why the Minstrel wears a mask and keeps people at arm's length: he too knows the pain of loving too much.

Laugh at yourself, high and mighty king, laugh at yourself or despair!

Even in the midst of darkness, there is always a shard of light if we will but search for it hard enough and believe in it strongly enough.

I know most people have given up on a happy ending. But I can't. I have to hope.

We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.

No," he said, "I have no sensation there." That was true, and it was the blessing of scars: the deeper they were, the more you couldn't feel anything in them at all.

Goethe's Oak, which

Sometimes, it seems, when you let people know what you're going through, help arrives when you're least expecting it, bringing you what you didn't know you needed, in forms above and beyond what you've ever imagined.

trudging a determined circuit around Lake Harriet even in the most dismal weather.

when you found yourself alive at the end of it, you were no longer sure whether that was a good thing.

blessing of scars: the deeper they were, the more you couldn't feel anything in them at all.

Life is so often unfair and painful and love is hard to find and you have to take it whenever and wherever you can get it, no matter how brief it is or how it ends.

Thomas cracks his joints on the steering wheel. It's all right. I mean, it's not, but of course you wouldn't know. It's not exactly something I advertise. And I only bring it up now to let you know I'm in your corner. Life is so often unfair and painful and love is hard to find and you have to take it whenever and wherever you can get it, no matter how brief it is or how it ends. So I understand. That's all.

My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.

I want to be judged by who I am as a person, not by what happened to me. In fact, all the bad things have only contributed to my confidence and sense of self, because I survived them and became a better and stronger person.

Ultimately, what really matters is not just the experiences you have at a young age, but whether or not you are equipped-by your parents, by your genetics, by your education-to survive and deal with them.

Perhaps trying to move away from my problems and focus on the positive is the best I can do.

he knew that a brave man has many wounds, but never a one on his back.

I can't imagine pressing on relentlessly through day and night with mind, body, spirit in a single state, can't imagine denying myself the possibility of a fresh start.

There are many stages of grief. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way -- cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I'm a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren't in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it.

You just have to work really hard to tune out the noise and the static. Because it gets louder, and people really have an opinion, and you don't want to shy away from taking chances for fear of what people will say, or living in the wreckage of the future [of] what may be if I do this.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.

I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.