Quotes About Resilience

I've faced worse than a dressmaker who breaths fire.

I already have a plan." Celie said, raising her hand as she would with her tutor. "Do you?" Rolf's eyes gleamed. "What is it?" "I don't think you'll like it, Lilah." Celie apologized straightaway. "It involves manure...a great deal of manure." Rolf started to laugh again.

Never look back, never forget.

We're almost there, Oliver said. Once again Petunia was so startled that she tripped and would have fallen is Oliver hadn't caught her around the waist and pulled her upright. "You must have been far away," he said laughing.

I could never live like this," I whispered to Luka. "No," he agreed. "I've seen you grovel. It's not very convincing.

She drew herself up, pulling the shawl closed at her neck. "We have had a most trying day," she informed them with as much dignity as she could muster. "Prince Mihai has just left us and is no longer welcome anywhere near Dacia or me, and I am naked beneath this shawl. "So to answer your question, my lord: this is a terrible time.

it's all right," Celie said quietly. "Prince Khelsh's rooms are very small, and dark, and poorly furnished.

Come along, Rufus," she said, and gave another tug. He sighed and stopped chewing the door, following Celie.

The most important thing in a child's development is emotional stability.

Training is full-on. Some days I really don't want to get out of bed and hit that track again. Sunday and Monday morning sessions are always horrible. But who really looks forward to going to work on a Monday morning?

There's an important difference between GIVING UP and LETTING GO! - Jessica Hatchingan.

When I got done, I'm looking at these two floppies that look just the same. And I decided that I might have written onto the good one from the bad, and I did. So I had lost it all. I went back to my hotel room. I slept for a while. I got up about 10:00 a.m. or so. I sat down and, out of my head and my listings, recreated everything, got it working again, and we showed it at the show.

But there is one good thing about hearing your deepest fear spoken out loud - nothing else that made you afraid before will ever seem so large or terrible again.

Normal people can become very annoying if put in annoying situations.

What happens when you get scared half to death twice?

This book is for everyone who has survived. You are not broken. You can love and be loved, despite what may feel like the eternally brutal nature of the world. Even when you're drowning and so far under, there is always time to reach for someone who will teach you how to breathe again.

Her mind circled and darted like a bird whose nest has been destroyed.

Every tear should live its purpose. Don't ever wipe the reason away.

Still, I was present. I kept a promise I made to myself a little over a year before to show up in my own life. To feel things, whether they were the result of bad memories, or good ones in the making.

was truly happy, and at least for that moment, no man could take that from me.

I just feel like I'm going through so many changes," I said to Johnny one night over scotch. "It's hard." "Nah, change is easy," he said. "Staying the same is a lot harder on you.

I beat myself up enough with this fight club in my head that I know what can happen if I invite new members.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." It's a quote from Joseph Campbell, who studied mythology to describe what it takes to be a hero. I probably got it from one of the many, many self-help books I devoured back then, underlining points and dog-earing the pages that seemed to tell me a way out. I repeated that quote to myself for weeks, in the shower, on a red carpet, driving in my car.

We need to own our weakness, our hurt, our pain, and say it out loud so that we can name what is coming up and why. You deserve it. You deserve to feel the heartbreak and the pain so that once and for all you stop holding yourself back from feeling whatever it is you've tried to mask. No, it's not easy but you are worth the work.