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Quotes About Resilience

It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.
~ Jennifer Lopez
I was sad. I was heartbroken. I was scared. But it was only through adversity that I found my saving graces. Sometimes they came from unexpected sources—a song, a challenge, or a friend. It was my responsibility to make the most of them, apply them to my life, act on them, and rise to the occasion.
~ Jennifer Lopez
It's the messy parts that make us human, so we should embrace them too —pat ourselves on the back for getting through them rather than being angry for having gotten into them in the first place
~ Jennifer Lopez
Sometimes you have to explore the darkness to get to the light and get back to who you are.
~ Jennifer Lopez
Sometimes it's the toughest moments that you learn the most about yourself, and the more you know yourself, the less you are willing to give away.
~ Jennifer Love Hewitt
If you can't laugh, you won't make it.
~ Jennifer Love Hewitt
If we wear our worst reviews like a backpack, they travel with us.
~ Jennifer Love Hewitt
I was outnumbered, unarmed, weak, and screwed. In that order.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
You don't have to kiss me. You don't even have to like me, Heiress, but please don't make me do this alone.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
I'm not Team Gale or Team Peeta. I'm Team Katniss...the core story in the Hunger Games trilogy has less to do with who Katniss ends up with and more to do with who she is - because sometimes, in books and in life, it's not about the romance. Sometimes, it's about the girl.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Katie nosed at the carpet and then gave it a good chew. When it proved recalcitrant enough that she couldn't pull it up, she growled. "Who's a fierce little girl?" I asked her. "Who's going to kick butt and take names and help her big sister get into all kinds of trouble someday?" Devon snorted. "Sometimes, I think the term bad influence was invented specifically with you in mind.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The trick to being abandoned was to never let yourself long for anyone who left.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Sometimes, there aren't any good choices. Sometimes, making the right one is hard... It's funny, but when you think about it, we're all broken. That's what life does. It knocks you down and breaks you and you either get back up again, or you don't. You either do things on your terms, or you don't. You let the bad things win, or you don't." "You either let it break you, or you don't.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Little Sisters' Survival Guide, rule number thirty-seven," Skylar said. "Scream before they hit you.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Where are you going?" I asked him. After everything it has taken to get to this point, he couldn't just walk away. "To hell, eventually," Jameson answered. "Probably to the wine cellar, for now.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Thea isn't a girl. She's a whirlwind wrapped in a hurricane wrapped in steel.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
When the odds are bad, you change the rules.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
I'm not the glass ballerina," I said firmly. "I'm not going to shatter.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
I'm not your girl" "You could be." "Yeah and I could also tattoo an anorexic pterodactyl on my navel, but I'm not planning on do that, either
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Being raised by a psychopath will do that to you.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Nothing hurts you unless you let it.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
It figured--the almost invincible girl gets hurt, and they call a vet.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
I'd tell you that you can't stay mad forever," Ivy commented, "but I'm pretty sure you'd take that as a challenge.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
In the past six weeks, I'd been shot at, blown up, kidnapped, and paraded around as the living, breathing embodiment of Cinderella stories. To the world, I was a scandal, a mystery, a curiosity, a fantasy.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes