Quotes About Resilience

Was that hard-hearted? Well, so what if it was. She'd been through enough to harden anyone. It was none of her choosing; all she'd done was clung on to her life like a spar from a shipwreck. Better to be hardened than crushed to nothing.

Keep your heart infinitesimally small and sorrow will never spy it, never plunge, never flap away with your heart in her claws.

It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Nie mo?esz pozwoli? by fakt, ?e kto? chce twojej ?mierci, uniemo?liwi? ci wypicie twojej herbaty.

At any rate, let's not waste time on ruminations and regrets in the middle of a pandemic.

Half the country wouldn't have died if the landlords hadn't kept shipping away the corn, seizing cattle, rack-renting, evicting, torching cabins…Or if the government at Westminster hadn't thought it the most prudent course of action to sit on their arses and let the Irish starve.

His plastic hand is up and he's waggling his fingers, I pretend I don't see. I'm not going to give him my fingers, I need them for me.

All the women I knew carried some kind of blade, though they were not all metal, or even visible. Whether something had happened to them, or whether they had only anticipated it, it kept them awake the occasional night

Evolution protects those who protect themselves.

Work will be your mother, she whispered; it will lead you through dark days; it will clear you a level place to rest at last.

And one of these days, even this flu will have run its course. Really? Mary O'Rahilly asked. How can you be sure? The human race settles on terms with every plague in the end, the doctor told her. Or a stalemate, at the least. We somehow muddle along, sharing the earth with each new form of life.

Scared is what you're feeling, says Ma, but brave is what you're doing.

It was easy to lose a part of your body, it seemed to her; there were so many ways, it was a wonder anybody reached their death intact.

The weaklings — ashamed, but grateful — holding out their hands to the flames, their renewed faith glowing inside them. Well, he supposes there are times mercy may do what strictness can't.

Sitting watching Anna's eyelids flicker some hours later, Lib found herself longing for the sleep she should have had that afternoon. But this was an old battle, and like any nurse, she knew she could win if she spoke to herself severely enough. The

From having nursed alongside a variety of women, Lib knew that self-mastery counted for more than almost any other talent. She

My job wasn't to cure all Ita Noonan's ills but to bring her safe through this particular calamity, I reminded myself, to push her little boat back into the current of what I imagined to be her barely bearable life.

Learn even from enemies.

When I was as young as you are now I learned how to save my own life.

No entiendo por qué el dolor significa que te curas

Blanche has already steeled herself, knowing that the Irish can't cook.)

Keep your heart infinitesimally small, and sorrow will never spy it...

No one ever loved you like him. And no one ever took it away so completely. But it's here. Look around.

It's like he has emotional amnesia... I think you have to accept that the person you knew isn't there at the moment. I was witness to how much he loved you. I have the photos. This isn't the person we knew. I don't recognize this person. He's shed his skin. Her heart is broken too. She has to say the thing that will give me back my life. She draws on every reserve. I see how much it hurts her and it hurts me too. I came from her joy and her pain, I lived in it and I live in it now.