Quotes About Resilience

almost grateful to leave Galen's nice little apartment—which still held hope like tattered party banners—for Tory's, which was a testament to when hope died, violently and by its own hand.

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

Even Pain pricks to livelier living.

For I have time for nothing But the endeavour to balance myself Upon a broken world.

Denise, the Nazi soldiers in those trucks do not suspect they're about to be outfoxed by two girls." In the stillness before we spring back itno action, Denise looks to me, grinning like mad. She quotes a line from King Kong, one of my favorite movies I watched with Tom. "'Oh no. It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.

Well, spit on my empty grave--if it ain't the attack of the Disney princesses!

How do you teach hope?

Steven's gone," April cried. "My baby's out in the storm, him and the dog are both gone!

Why is it that a worm can regrow most of its body, but we can't replace so much as a finger? I am left with the troubling conclusion that the worm's survival may, in the grand scheme of things, be more important than my own.

we have to be a part of the world in which we live. We don't scurry away when we're in trouble, or when someone else is. We don't run and hide.

and Bessie for offering. But we've done just fine standing up for

It had survived a fire that burned most of the city when Fleurette was a little girl, and traces of black soot were still lodged in the crevices of its scrollwork, giving it the appearance of a building that had been drawn in artist's charcoal.

It didn't help that Norma had all the girlish charm of a boulder

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan

I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind. -Lindo

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei

A girl is like a young tree, she said. You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you. That is the only way to grow strong and straight. But if you bend to listen to other people, you will grow crooked and weak. You will fall to the ground with the first strong wind. And then you will be like a weed, growing wild in any direction, running along the ground until someone pulls you out and throws you away.