Quotes About Resilience

This is something that I have learned at PA that I would have never learn at home because I have my own room and I'm an only. Nobody has it easy, not even the Great and Tall Blond One

He encouraged us to reflect on the past. Make peace with it. You cannot control the evil done to you. You cannot turn back and right the good left undone.

sometimes things don't always go the way we want this side of Heaven

You just do your best, and life will follow.

Life, Enza decided, is not about what you get, but what is taken from you. It's in the things we lose that we discover what we most treasure.

When you fall in love (...) it has to be from a place of strength. It has to be because you want to build something, not because you need to cling to someone to shore you up or save you.

You kick a dog long enough, and eventually it will bite.

Each poor immigrant girl had a plan in place to survive. Some had brothers or fathers for protection, others, young husbands; but for all of them, the first line of defense was their scissors.

The girl who built her life so carefully so she'd never have to ask anybody for anything. I have had it with me. Whoever I was!

The terrible things that happen to us in this life never make any sense when we're in the middle of them, floundering, no end in sight. There is no rope to hang on to, it

Will I?" "Grief is never as bad as it is when you first feel it. The trick is to walk with it. Make it a part of who you are. Don't rail against it.

The operators were bound together by what they were running from—poverty in all its forms, despair, hunger, decimated families—as well as what they hoped to gain. Their imaginations were filled with American treasures:

Even when we're broken, we're beautiful.

It seems that the people with passion never get the thing they're after.

Grief doesn't hit and run; it stays. and sometimes for a very long time.

you must dig constantly for meaning in the sorrow of this life, and that this sorrow must galvanize you, not define you.

The terrible things that happen to us in this life never make any sense when we're in the middle of them, floundering, no end in sight.

He decided to cling to those things that were wonderful about her, and to ignore the ravages of time and insecurity, instability, and anxiety.

Sometimes we get our hearts broken, only to have the right person come along to mend them

Old age was a box of surprises and not the good kind.

I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful...

We all come here thinking that we'll go home. And then, this becomes home." The

Emotions are for the present; don't squander them on past hurts that are a waste of time.

There were times when I cursed the trail and the weather for hours. But after you sulk and consider your options, you eventually realize that you can sit there and cry, or you can walk... It doesn't matter so much if you cry or walk -- I did a lot of both -- but if you turn on your partner, you'll never make it together.