Quotes About Resilience

Los recuerdos se erguían para morderlo, como si hubiera pisado un nido de serpientes dormidas.

Izzy had displayed the persistent adhesiveness of a teasel.

am not going to let myself be beaten to the ground by the dread of what may happen.

Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime' (here) Mineko Iwasaki, Geisha of Gion: The True Story of Japan's Foremost Geisha, published by arrangement with Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 1st Floor, 222 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HB. A CBS Company.

Pretending you're OK when you aren't isn't strength.

I am so well acquainted with despair, I know not how to hope… Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, The Honest Whore

dismissal—" "It weren't coz of tha'," said Holly.

You could find beauty nearly anywhere if you stopped to look for it, but the battle to get through the

The mighty are brought low by many a thing Too small to name… Helen Murphy Hunt Danger

Attempting to make up with Charlotte before every last ounce of her fury had been spent had been like trying to rebuild a house during an earthquake.

but I've lost count of the number of times things like that happen to me.

Tylko ?e ju? próbowali, a potem znowu, znowu i znowu. Po jakim? czasie pierwsza pot??na fala wzajemnej t?sknoty cofa?a si? i zawsze ods?ania?a paskudny wrak przesz?o?ci, którego mroczny cie? k?ad? si? na wszystkim, co usi?owali odbudowa?.

I am not going to let myself be beaten to the ground by the dread of what may happen.

I have forged me in sevenfold heats A shield from foes and lovers, And no one knows the heart that beats Beneath the shield that covers.

Nillness, that was where Lula Landry had gone, and where all of them, he and Rochelle included, were headed. Sometimes illness turned slowly to nillness, as was happening to Bristow's mother…sometimes nillness rose to meet you out of nowhere, like a concrete road slamming your skull apart.

I've only got one leg." "Don't be silly…" "I'm not being silly…it got blown off in Afghanistan." "Poor baby…" she whispered. "I'll rub it better." "Yeah—that's not my leg…It's helping, though…

I'm fine, for God's sake,' said Robin, now slightly exasperated. 'If I keeled over every time someone got stabbed in London I'd spend half my life unconscious.

But life's taught me things can always get worse than they are.

Love...was pain and grief sought, accepted, endured.

undertaking, they said, was too

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain

The only thing left to her keeping were a bloody old rag and a creased photograph of the ocean which she held pressed to the hollow of her slender throat and had thrashed for and bit hands to protect like a madwoman risen from sleep to in her unformed state between wake and dream reproach the world tenfold.

Time cannot erase the sadnesses of life, but it can help us to learn from them the hardest lesson of all: that even one's mistakes are enriching.

We live with the past because we have to, but we don't have to live in it.