Quotes About Resilience

Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its steam-roller of deadlines and details straight at one's daily life, leaving a person flat and gasping at its passage.

For a man who claimed not to care much for women, Mr Holmes sure found some strong ones.

Love was the thing that kept a person going past exhaustion, beyond reason, after hope was at its end. Grit

When the choice came down to tears, strong drink, or potatoes, one chooses potatoes. She

they turned up Regent Street, braced together against the sway of the pavement. [The Language of Bees, chapter 19]

Everyone is allowed a weakness, even women of the twentieth century.

I am getting old, Russell. Gone are the days when I could scramble about on the moors all day and curl up happily at night with a thin blanket and a stone for a pillow. Three nights on floorboards and one night without sleep following three days at strenuous labour make me aware that I am no longer a callow youth.

if she was finished.

Every so often, one encounters a woman of her type who reaches past the distractions of position, pleasure, and society's assumptions to become something greater. And even more rarely, one finds a woman who craves not power, but the chance to create something new.

When things broke down, one kept moving, for to stop was to signal the end. To complain was to waste breath. To fuss was a luxury.

The New Your energy goes beyond anything you'll find anywhere else. It's too much for some people and it grinds them down, but it lifts up and animates the rest of us.

And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

So many changes, eating away at the world like water dripping on a rock.

People go through changes and life does the damnedest things to us all.

Life, I announced, is not a B picture. Well, it ain't no De Mille epic either, boss. Things'll work out, Bernie.

The world's a bastard. Life just happens to people.

When rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it.

I know what you mean," I said. "The thing is, it's not something I have to be told. I've always been a stubborn son of a bitch. When I start something I have a hell of a time letting go of it. I think that's the main way I solve things, to tell you the truth. I don't do it by being brilliant. I just hang on like a bulldog until something shakes loose.

Death is not always an occasion for sorrow.

When you really love, you can never be hurt.

Practice the Three Breakthrough Actions: • Let go of your non-love feelings. • Hold in mind what you want. • Be positive and loving in spite of whatever happens.

Most people lie and let life play upon them like the tepid discharges of a douche-bag.

A good doctor, and in a special sense the psychologist, makes it quite deliberately, slightly harder for the patient to recover too easily. You do this to see if his psyche has any real bounce in it, for the secret of healing is in the patient and not the doctor.

she had been raped by one of her relations. One cannot help smiling at the commonplaceness of the thought.