Quotes About Resilience

i've found that letting something stay broken for a little while helps me understand it.

Sometimes my life here felt like a cage where I could never escape the pain. At other times it felt like the only firm ground on earth

It was easier to be the victim, but it didn't feel so great.

But if I can't change something, I don't waste energy on it.

Kiss me, Joe. I won't shatter… Seriously, Joe, you can touch me without breaking me. In fact, you might even put me a little bit back together.

I'm taking it day by day." I liked saying this. It was honest, short, and seemed to satisfy people.

But even if that were true, I was working hard. I didn't know how not to.

Anyone whos had something truly crappy happen to them will tell you: Its all about Before and After.

Anyone who's had something truly crappy happen to them will tell you: It's all about Before and After. What I'm talking about here is the ka-pow, shake-you-to-your-core-and-turn-your-bones-to-plastic kind of crappy.

Sé amable, porque cada persona enfrenta una dura batalla.

Where I belong is here, because that's where we all are, fighting our hard battles for the same thing.

Mostly, I hope for snow in winter and the fortitude to bear it. — Jennifer Chang, from "The Strangers", Some Say the Lark . (?Alice James Books; 1st edition (October 10, 2017)

What did we do those days, stuck at home, my sons might someday ask. We lived or tolerated living. We looked away from death.

Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind.

Cradles of the Reich covers a dark period of history, but I hope readers will be heartened by how the connections women forge can carry us through the most harrowing of times and sometimes even drive us to act with heroism we hadn't realized we were capable of.

I think you're permanently disqualified from the lucky category after four miscarriages, a virtual divorce, and a face that could scare small children.

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway! It was the first time I'd ever contemplated that fear and action could coexist peacefully. I always thought I had to get over my fear before doing anything, but according to this Dr. Jeffers, I should embrace my fear rather than swatting it away like a swarm of flies. It

It's a good thing he broke up with you because now you're free for when the right man finds you. Your prince is on his way." "Right. I'm sure he was on his way but a truck hit him.

Dempseys are never in trouble. We just have stretches of life that are more interesting than others.

Here are the things girls die of: hunger, disease, accidents, childbirth, and violence. It takes more than heartache to kill a girl. Girls are tough as rocks.

Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still have trouble making them come when I want them to. Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get – a cold sick feeling deep down inside – when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know you will never be the same again.

The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can't you see? I do not.

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

They cut away pieces of me," she whispered in the darkness. "But I handed them the knife.