Quotes About Resilience

They really didn't want me there. I finally realized. So I didn't fight it. I took an honorable discharge and walked away." "When was this?" "A long time ago." "And you're still walking." "That's too profound." "You sure?" "Deep down I'm very shallow.

I guess I can dream. Hope dies last, right?

great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves." And

He pushed off the wall and parted the crowd, chest out, as straight and slow as a funeral march. No one blocked him. He made it to the street door. In front of it was a tight knot of six men. In their thirties, probably, and none of them slender. But desk workers. Their suits were shiny on the ass and the elbow. He could read their body language. They were set to let him pass, and then they would about-turn fast and spill out behind him, on the damp and shiny cobblestones. Reacher

saying it was

delivered hard but with a degree of mercy, in that smashed

10. El camino difícil

12. Nada que perder (Nothing to Lose)

14. 61 horas (61 Hours)

one of his mother's favorite expressions started to echo in his head: When you're in a hole, stop digging.

Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth.

We'll find you,' Emerson said. 'You won't,' Reacher said. 'Nobody ever has before.' Then

Hope for the best, plan for the worst. That

But we were hungry. And we had things to do. Roscoe put on the clothes she'd brought from her place in the morning. Jeans, shirt, jacket. Looked wonderful. Very feminine, but very tough. She had a lot of spirit.

about someone wearing body armor. It's

from The Art of War by Sun-tzu: To fail to take the battle to the enemy when your back is to the wall is to perish.

They train long and hard to make such eventualities very unlikely, even impossible.

Standing up for what you believe in comes has a price but backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying

So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it for one second, it will kill you. Thorns, insects, fungus, worms, birds, reptiles, wild animals, raging rivers, bottomless ravines, dry deserts, snow, quicksand, tumbleweeds, sap, and mud. Rot, poison and death. That's Nature. It's a wonder you even step outside of your cabin, I said. My bravery exceeds my good sense, he said.

After that experience, I immediately enrolled Julie in tae kwon do class, despite her protests. I wanted to be sure that if she were ever attacked, her instincts would take over, and that her instincts would kick ass.

Spinelessness was the lack of the inner strength to endure the anguish or pain required to overcome a major obstacle or a difficult challenge.

I fell, okay? Then clawed your way out like a bad zombie movie?

If Strength comes through Suffering, why then I should be the strongest of all women, yet I am the weakest. God help me. Help me.

On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge.