Quotes About Resilience

It's not what happens to you that determines your happiness. It's how you think about what happens to you.

Fred might, on just having lost his job, decide that he

BAD THINGS HAPPEN WHEN WE ARE FEELING BAD

find some opportunity within the "disaster".

Sometimes you don't get to choose your struggles—they choose you.

Cardiff thinks I'm tied up with them? I've half a mind to tell him to go fuck himself right now. Fortunately, the rational side of my brain keeps me from going all McPherson on him. I take a slow breath and put the regulator back in my mouth as I slip under the waves

ongoing blackout.

We all have to face some kind of adversity.

My solution was to make that a feature, not a bug.

I've learned that you never win a battle of wills with a crazy person because they don't even know there's a battle.

a hurricane.

The whole reason this place exists is because of the broken homes these kids fall in and out of. This lady is doing her best to give them a stable environment.

Watch yourself. Don't think just because you survived one monster you'll survive the next. I'm alive because I kept running from them. Not to them.

Vital organs and arteries matter, but so does the will to live.

She probably doesn't think she can multitask well, but under pressure her bandwidth is enormous.

I'm not scared," she says defiantly. "If the devil wanted me, he would have come for me when he got Chelsea.

You know about the frog and the pot of boiling water?" "That's a myth. They hop out. They always hop out.

This is some next-level Lance Armstrong bionic shit going on.

When things get bad, the trouble comes to the surface.

CARLY PHILLIPS There is no substitute for hard work, i.e., sitting down at the computer and writing no matter what you feel like doing instead.

We quote from books. Movies are made from books. Musicals are made from books. Much of our religion and spiritual belief comes from books. Books can help us understand who we are and why we do what we do and think what we think. Books teach us about life and humanity. Sometimes books can remind us we can overcome all that life throws at us. Books entertain us, and I cannot imagine a life without books.

She knows about men, knows a good deal of the world's character. But it is hard, whatever you have endured, to give up on love. Hard to stop thinking of it as a home you might one day find again. More than hard.

Não fico ressentida por conta disso, mas seria muito bom fazer coisas como passar um fim de semana em Paris, mas isso não é possível para mim no momento. Porém, sei que um dia, se seguir as regras da vida — o jogo da vida — poderei ter as coisas que sempre desejei, e elas serão muito mais especiais porque serei muito mais velha e muito mais capaz de apreciá-las.

So you think I'll be all right?' 'You'll be fine. Everything will be fine.' 'As it could be?' 'It's always as it could be. Don't look for perfection. Look for—' 'Survival with a touch of pleasure, a touch of happiness?' 'It's all anyone can expect.