Quotes About Resilience

Waiting for the What Ifs of life, for what might happen, causes the sturdiest of hearts to be anxious.

I didn't stop to think about how my normal had never been so great in the first place. And I was a mess. I'd been holding my secrets inside for so long, I had lost all sense of perspective. If we can do what we're meant to do, I think we can make them stop.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.

how do we learn to accept and forgive those who have both succeeded and failed in helping us become who we are?

How much am I willing to endure in order to remember? Do I truly want to be empowered by memory or language?

I discovered a new emotion, bubbling up from underneath my fear: anger. I was getting very tired of it all. Very tired.

No one will rescue you.

Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.

Sometimes there is a wellspring or river of something beautiful and possible in the tenderest sense that comes to and from the most broken of children, and I was one of these, and whatever is was, I can't name, I can only thank. Perhaps it is the water of life that saves us, after all.

It was amazing how flowers could grow in the damnedest places, but the Devlin weed patch had sprouted quite a wildflower in Faith.

It takes strength to participate in life.

It was amazing how flowers could grow in the damnedest places

Jason is one of those people who is like a Slinky; you always smile when you think of watching him fall down the stairs.

She hadn't been broken; she'd been furious and hurt, but never broken...

hurting was better than dying.

When your feet hit the floor every morning, I'll bet the devil shudders and says 'Oh shit, she's awake!

No!" he roared. "I've had enough for today! A little of you goes a long way, lady!" "Please, call me Dione," she murmured. "I don't want to call you anything! My God, would you just leave me alone!" "Of course I will, when my job is finished. I can't let you ruin my record of successful cases, can I?

No matter how much damage he had done, he hadn't won.

I won't be talked around as if I'm invisible. This is my house, and let me remind all of you that I'm well over twenty-one. I'll go where I want, when I want. Let them make of that what they would! She hadn't lived with Aunt Ardith for nothing; Aunt Ardith would have died, just on principle, before she would have let a man tell her what to do.

Once outside, the man stopped, lifted his head, took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, as if the air smelled wonderful to him. Then he turned to Jimmy, his expression hard and serious. We will need an army. Uh, I don't exactly have one of those handy.

She had learned never to look back, never to give fate a second chance to kick her in the teeth.

How do you function when your entire body has been overtaken by searing emotional pain? How do you function when a huge hole had been ripped in your life? How do you ever smile again, laugh again, feel joy again? You just do it...Because you have no choice.

You only fear something that hasn't happened. Once it has happened, all you can do is deal with it.

She was independent by nature, but even the most independent person sometimes needed comfort