Quotes About Resilience

Turning death and destruction to new ways of seeing and being is the best offering we can make to those we have lost.

We all have our own special brand of pain and hurt.

Dont worry if he prefers someone else to you. Its hard to teach a monkey strawberries are sweeter than bananas.

Truly adversity is a great winnower of friendships. It is but the staunchest who will stick to us through our troubles, while those who love us for what we have, instead of what we are, fall away like chaff at the first breath of ill-fortune.

The girl burst out laughing; she knew she was nobody's meat.

We keep the wolves outside by living well.

I don't begrudge you my company, my darling. We must all make do with what rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

I have sharp teeth inside my mouth, Inside my dark red lips, And lacquer slickly hides the claws In my red fingertips. So I conceal my armoury. Yours is all on view. You think you are possessing me- But I've got my teeth in you.

I clung to him as though only the one who had inflicted the pain could comfort me for suffering it.

Degredation is the subtlest drug, the most insinuating. But they could do nothing to me I had not already imagined.

On her eighteenth birthday, my mother had disposed of a man-eating tiger that had ravaged the villages in the hills north of Hanoi. Now, without a moment's hesitation, she raised my father's gun, took aim and put a single, irreproachable bullet through my husband's head.

The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.

Have you ever stared stark failure in the face, young man? The trick is, to outstare it!

I toppled off my pyrotechnic tiger and, as I plunge downwards, endlessly as Lucifer, I ask myself: "What is the most miraculous event in the world?" And I answer myself: "I am going to fall into my own arms. They stretch out to me from the bottom of the pit.

But needs must when the devil drives.

This world's a vile oubliette. Yet in its refuse I will find the key to free me.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Keep going, Giselle commanded herself. Just one more step. Just one more step. The chant in her brain seemed to work. Just one more step. One more step. One more step. One more. One more. One… A warm hand touched her shoulder and her eyes sprung open. Maura stood beside her, the light from Angelica's stick illuminating her amused face. Giselle didn't care. She almost collapsed in relief when she saw she was past the chasm. Well past.

I could see that one of them had a bloody scratch down his cheek. Good for Kestrel!

that no man who led a nation could win without also suffering losses.

We women might not be as strong

No. No he didn't break you, my dear." Inhuman eyes probed hers delicately. "The most he managed was a bend here and there. Apparently he has forgotten that the beat of the hammer in the flame's heart only strengthens a good blade.

Life may seem overwhelming! Only if you push through everything that is overwhelming you can see the dream that had came true.

I have been very, very happy. Mamma always said that even if there wasn't any happiness one must try to be happy without it.