Quotes About Resilience

Life will be less attractive than when Aden was here, but still I must step onward. With the program over, she got the horse ready with Monroe's help. No one gave her strange looks when she drove away. Already other buggies were hitched up to leave. Her heart hurt as she drove down the gravel road and past the creek and Aden's old

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back.

'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing.

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.

Don't major on the fall, major on getting up!

I don't wanna be a Pirate!!!!

The good that may come out of the loss does not erase its badness or excuse the wrong done. Nothing can do that.

the book is intended to show how it is possible to live in and be enlarged by loss, even as we continue to experience it.

Although unanswered prayer is indeed a theme of the book, it is not the heart of the book, for unanswered prayer describes a problem but offers no solutions.

I had no way of anticipating the adjustments I would have to make and the suffering I would have to endure in the months and years ahead.

There are stories you don't want to tell, and there are stories that scald your brainpan right down to the tongue at the mere thought of uttering. But you can't NOT. Even if you wait until your skull is nothing but a charred and smoking husk, the truth will still be in there, squirming.

Not until I stopped doing drugs altogether did I feel like a man. Not until I walked out of that fire did I have any idea what the word even meant.

As far as I could tell, life was nothing but a forced march down a mined highway. Even if you did everything you were supposed to do, sooner of later if was your turn to step on a claymore.

I would, if one-armned and jonesing, doubtless have found a way to cook up a hearty spoon of Mexican tar and slam it with my toes. (I met a double amputee in San Francisco whose girlfriend slapped a bra strap around his throat and geezed him in the neck. Another triumph of the human spirit. But slap me if I get sentimental...)

When life becomes sub-human, sub-humans come alive.

We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

If you want to help someone in a bad situation, you need to give them the opportunity to work their way out of it.

Instynkt ?ycia najtrudniej zabi?. Widzia?em ludzi, którzy im g??biej staczali si? w upodlenie, tym gwa?towniej pragn?li przetrwa? wszystko i ocali? siebie.

He's like a flower doing its best on an asteroid, naked to so many cosmic terrors.

Sus oídos, escucharon un último disparo; una bala viajó por su cuerpo sin permiso, atravesándolo por una pierna.

The trick of life," she said, "is that you can't hold the pain for too long. The magic, either.