Quotes About Resilience

Forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice.

Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.

Diana Norman

Get used to it. Life doesn't give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

If you can stand on your own, it's better that you walk back rather than making someone from the fleet take you." Elliot rose, then swallowed the bile she tasted in her throat. "I have stood on my own for many years." He didn't look away this time, and his eyes were like a stranger's. "You're not the only one.

There's nothing wrong with Plan B.Play it right, and no one will even know it wasn't your first choice.

The secret to surviving heartbreak is finding more pressing drama.

When Vaughn set out, a wintry mix was falling from the sky, stinging his skin with every touch and crackling on the ground like breakfast cereal.

Odds were in favor of you dying, either by running into Tyet operations, by starvation or thirst, or by Mother Nature giving you a stone spanking.

I take great pride in not being that girl in the horror movies who knows a serial killer is axing people out in the woods and so decides that a nature walk is a brilliant idea. I'm the lock-myself-in-the-basement-with-a-shotgun-and-some-napalm sort of woman.

Some days, Lucy thought, deserved to be drowned at birth and everyone sent back to bed with a hot brandy, a box of chocolates, and a warm, energetic companion.

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.

Don't call the doctor, don't call ya mamma, don't call the preacher; no, I don't need it.

Existen mujeres que nacieron para sobrevivir y hay otras que nacieron para volar.

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.

I think when you're young you should be a lot with yourself and your sufferings. Then one day you get out where the sun shines and the rain rains and the snow snows, and it all comes together.

I hope your bacon burns.

That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.

Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success, let alone satisfaction.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma.

What's left after what one isn't is taken away is what one is.

Can you believe it? They made me an ensign." "I didn't realize that things were going so bad." "Scary, isn't it?

They're threatened by you,' she said. 'You chose to do something they'd never have the gumption to choose for themselves. Being their own person.