Quotes About Resilience

Even though she had failed, she knew somewhere deep inside that when you were tested with the worst that could happen and you didn't fall apart, then more things were possible than you imagined.

The Heart Shattered Glass

nothing, you can't fix anything. And your life might turn out to be full of regrets.

In my country I was an engineer, and taught at the university. I had a big house, many nice things. Then they decide they no longer like universities. Here I cook greasy sausage for 15 hours a day. Lots of people have hard things in their lives.

The men made war, he thought, not for the first time. The women suffered, and fought for the peace.

Ça ne sert à rien de devenir amère parce qu'il y a des connards sur terre. S'il n'y avait pas de connards, tu ne saurais pas repérer les gens bien.

Comment aurais-tu pu apprécier à quel point la vie peut être belle, si elle n'avait jamais été pourrie?

La vie est un sursaut. Il faut s'adapter quoi qu'il arrive, non ?

It was almost the cruelest thing he did, not to leave me when I still had the chance of meeting someone else, when I still had a bit of juice left in me. Me and the woman who wrote that book—we both know we're better than that.

Al die jaren hebben je gebracht waar je nu bent, hield ze zichzelf voor. Die jaren waren onontbeerlijk geweest. Als je gelukkig was geboren, hoe wist je dan wat het betekende om gelukkig te zijn? Hoe kon je je fijne leventje waarderen als je nooit in de shit had gezeten?

Quando ficava triste, os livros eram seu consolo; quando se sentia só, eles eram seus amigos. Eram eles que cuidavam do seu coração partido e a encorajavam a manter a esperança quando estava na pior.

People get up every day and walk about with smiles on their faces who have been through things you and I could never imagine.

We are two survivors clinging to a life raft.

But doing something new is so hard. And a few things can help.

I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

Which means that in the end there are certain things you can take with you when you flee, things that have no weight, such as music.

Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they were now too weak to carry all those things that are part of life, as though someone were trying to force them into old age by relieving them of all this.

The Lord gave, and the Lord took away, her grandmother said to her at the edge of the grave. But that wasn't right, because the Lord had taken away much more than had been there to start with, and everything her child might have become was now lying there at the bottom of the pit, waiting to be covered up.

Tanr? verdi, Tanr? ald?, demiÅŸti kad?na büyükannesi mezar çukurunun ba??nda.

I will never look at you in the same way ever again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.

But just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing.

How is a person supposed to prepare for what happens tomorrow when there's just no figuring out today?

There are two kinds of girls in this world. The kind who breaks hearts and the kind who gets her heart broken.

You've just gotta hold your head up and act like you don't give a shit