Quotes About Resilience

Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you'll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes. Maybe it won't — some people do lead enchanted lives — but odds are that it will. Some time.

With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: I will not be nothing.

All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired? I sat very diligently, she said.

Tiny fists can hurt quite a lot when they hit you in the face.

Robin McKinley

One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams.

The merrel also knew its wing had not healed. But I could reach a great height once more before it failed me, it said. And from there I would fold my wings and plummet to the earth as if a hare or a fawn had caught my eye; but it would be myself I stooped toward. It would be a good flight and a good death. And so I eat their dead things cut up on a pole, dreaming of my last flight.

There was a certain bitter humor to lying awake wishing for something one cannot have, after lying awake not so long ago wishing for the opposite thing that one had just lost. Not a very useful sort of adaptability, this, she thought.

Mathin had taught her patience, and she had known all of her life how to be stubborn.

But their strength is the strength of numbers and of stubbornness and persistence; do not underestimate it.

Despair was a private weakness she could not afford to indulge.

Balthazar was disappointed by all the walking, but he was accustomed to such disappointment. -Hellhound

It is not so easy as running and not running.

Dogs are very comforting when your world has exploded.

The burden she carried was different from yours, and it had worn on her for many years. When I knew her she had forgotten joy, although I believe Arlbeth gave her a little back again.

Roses are for love. Not forget-me-not, honeysuckle, silly sweethearts' love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you through the worst your life'll give you and that pours out of you when you're given the best instead.

Post-traumatic shock, phooey. Seemed to me the trauma was trotting right along with me, like a dog on a leash with its owner. I was the dog. I

But the worst borne is not necessarily past and over with thereby. The worst of fighting a dragon is being caught in its fire, but you do not survive dragon encounters by commanding your muscles to withstand dragon fire, because you and they cannot. You survive by avoiding being burnt.

She had courage enough, but little imagination; or she would not have forgotten joy, whatever the weight on her.

I'm not a goddam invalid!" I howled at Charlie. "I don't need to be treated with gloves and—and bedpans! Will you please tell me I'm being a miserable bitch and you'd like to upend a garbage bin over my head!" There was a pause. "Well, the idea had crossed my mind," said Charlie. I stood there, buttery fists clenched, breathing hard. "Thank you," I said.

I thought, I have been so tired, these last two months. I have got used to that too. I have told myself it is just part of—having had what happened, happen. You do not get over something like that quickly. I had told myself that was all it was. I had almost believed it. I had believed it.

He ran till he was blind with running, till he thought he had lived his entire life running, one foot pounding down in front of the other endlessly, till his bones were on fire with it, and every time either foot struck the ground his whole body cried out against the jolt. He set his teeth and ran on.

Let us not gallop to meet future difficulties," said Robin. "A walking pace is enough.

It's funny, because I had thought, living through those first two months after the night at the lake, that the great crisis was about What I Was or Who I'd Become or What Terrible Thing Was Wrong With Me (and About to Go Wronger) and Why All Was Changed As a Result. But I was still struggling against the idea that all *was* changed.