Quotes About Resilience

There was rarely a moment when she wasn't having to work around the limitations of her body. Discomfort was a daily fact of life. Sometimes the ache was a nuisance. Other times, it was a storm that clawed and pulled and made it hard to concentrate on anything else. Mostly, Ling resented pain because it kept her from thinking, and thinking was what Ling did best.

I have seen what a handful of girls can do. They can hold back an army if necessary, so please don't tell me it isn't possible.

Today is a hard day. Sometimes, there are hard days. Days stretched so tight with pain that they seem as if they can allow no room for hope.

Just as I'm certain Sam is still short. That part didn't require code. Take that, Sam.

I am the skunk killer.

Apple barn's better'n a pig barn," they chortled over coffee mugs in the cafés. After four years they had become accustomed to the sight of Mr. Q's oversize moustache with its melancholy droop. They no longer questioned the unorthodox W in the spelling of Qwilleran. And most of them now accepted the fact that the middle-aged divorced bachelor chose to live alone—with two cats!

Qwilleran drove with clenched jaw, enduring the stares and glares of motorists who passed him, their fretful horn-honking and hostile tailgating.

The human heart dares not stay away from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

A woman who dared to live as an overt homosexual in such unwelcoming times might well have an ego of impressive strength and health that permitted her it know her own mind and to be true to her conception of herself.

As others grown more intelligent under stress, I grow heavy, as if I were an animal on a chain.

Despite the forecast, live like it's spring.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.

Perhaps some day it will be pleasant to remember even this.' " Mykolos

Lincoln Child

Herbert's And now in age I bud again After so many deaths I live and write; I once more smell the dew and rain and relish versing.

Wrinkles? They just tell the story of your life

God is there to give us strength for every hill we have to climb.

It's the living who are left to suffer. A hard truth, but that's the way it is.

Linda Castillo

As much as I want to make things right, some chasms are simply too treacherous to traverse.

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Going beyond forgiveness is sometimes more difficult than the initial act of forgiving.

When we love, we open ourselves to the possibility of hurt.

Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.