Quotes About Resilience

there's no point in mourning mistakes when you can fix them

Small-town kids are pebbles in a river, pushed around by the flow, forming pockets and piles, reforming when the current picks up and we find ourselves in a whole new cluster.

Every woman should have pearls," Mom said, "to remind ourselves that grit under pressure becomes beauty.

seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a

She would likely live and die alone. She had accepted that fact as best she could. Her escapes were the way she lived with it.

JUDGE. And before we start I want you all to realize that there's no problem too big to solve. Into every life a little rain must fall. Every cloud must have a silver lining, and it is always darkest before the dawn. LIZ. Well, now that we've had the weather report, let's get on with the case.

You can obsess and obsess over how things ended- what you did wrong or could have done differently- but there's not much of a point. It's not like it'll change anything. So really, why worry?

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I'm half ground, that I don't want to be a sausage after all.

Groan and forget it.

We are born in this cemetery, but must not despair. -Piet Soron, 1847

Just in case the letter doesn't get all the way to you, I gave it some wings so it could fly the rest of the way.

In general I think sadness kind of take the strength away from anger, or maybe they just waver back and forth. I don't know. All I know is most of the time I am one or the other—angry or sad.

When there is nothing to do you do what little there is. What little is left.

One wants the struggle. One shouldn't permit it to be removed.

You really can do all things through Christ who gives you strength—and He will give you strength.

No. He'd do it now. If it broke him, then it broke him. No holding back. There's only one person in the world brave enough and forgiving enough to care for me. If I saved myself at his expense, what the hell would I be saving myself for?

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.

Keep hope alive!

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.