Quotes About Resilience

It's easier to live with failure than with regret.

things hadn't worked out as I'd planned didn't mean things couldn't work out at all. I

Dying is hardest on the living.

It's been twenty years, Lieutenant. I've gone through it every day for twenty years. I'll get through these days the same way I got through those, one bad day at a time.

the walls were down, the only thing I could do was rebuild.

When ninety-five percent of your life is good, don't sweat the other five percent.

every cross we bear is an opportunity.

She looked like she could eat glass shards and shit a stained-glass window.

Tracy knew that some pain never fully resolved. You just suppressed it beneath a façade of normalcy.

el mundo no se detiene para que uno pueda compadecerse de sí mismo. Un día te despiertas y te das cuenta de que tienes que seguir caminando, porque… porque no puedes hacer otra cosa.

Someone once said that failure is easier to live with than regret, and it pierced my heart like an arrow. Dreams are hard to catch, aren't they? Especially if you don't have the courage to try.

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Besides, I no longer believed in God's will. I was not willing to accept that it was God's will for a good man like my father, a devoted man, to spend his final days in some care facility.

he was "tougher than a two-dollar steak.

failure is easier to live with than regret

I am like the pencil I constantly sharpen with a knife; I am just a dull nub of the person I was.

You've climbed higher mountains than I ever had to climb, but you have one more mountain to climb, and you know it. The past is always the highest peak, and the hardest to scale. But when you finally pull yourself to the top and peer over the edge, there's nothing before you but the rest of your life.

She didn't have much choice. There wasn't anyone to comfort her, and so she'd never learned how to be comforted. She was trying.

Life's a bitch, kid. And then you die.

It could be so cruel, hope. But for twenty years it was all she'd had to hold on to, the only thing to push back the darkness that lingered on the periphery, searching for every opportunity to enshroud her.

You're human, Tracy, which means you're not perfect. You're going to fail, through no fault of your own. That's part of being human, being imperfect. The question is, can you live with being imperfect? Can you live with failure?

Her muscles cramped and eventually seized. When