Quotes About Resilience

But don't imagine that always brave translates to never afraid.

Battles are the proving grounds of what you already have put into practice.

It's not the flying that's the hard part; it's the landing.

Winners never quit, quitters never win

We are all a little bit broken, she tells me (the reason she doesn't sleep at night?), but we all work on fixing ourselves.

It's true that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But no one says that strength doesn't come at a price.

You're strong and that helped you, but this doesn't have to define you. You are a young woman with your whole life ahead of you. Don't confuse what you had to do to survive with who you are.

Funny how you can fear change, even when already surrounded by the worst of the worst.

You can go three minutes without air, three hours without shelter, three days without water, and three weeks without food.

Humans are interesting, however. Our ability to adapt is truly impressive. Our rage against our own suffering. Our relentless need to find a way out, to do something, anything, to advance our lot in life.

Bad people don't want to deal with the powerful. They prey on the weak.

It takes a villain to make a hero. And it took a monster to make me.

They have to get through each day, which makes truth a fickle companion.

Good things can be forged from bone-deep fury.

I'd clawed my way back to the land of the living. Because of Vero. She needed me.

turned out, a giant well of emptiness had always existed inside me. A void so deep and black and ugly, I wasn't just empty, I was hollowed out by the losses in my life. Until there were days I didn't dare go outside because I worried the wind would blow me away. The pills became my

Feel your feels, as the saying goes. Except so many feelings are hard to take.

And I take all that sadness back inside me, cleaning the floor, sweeping up the shredded bits of wax, because I don't want

can't do this. I suck at this. Which is why they're making me go. Not to improve my swimming—who cares about that?—but to work on that whole playing-well-with-others thing. Another one of my broken bits. I don't want to socialize with other kids. I don't trust 'em, I don't like 'em, and best I can tell, the feeling's mutual.

Families aren't built in a day. But they can be destroyed in an instant.

For a bit, he picked up the paperbacks, thumbed the worn edges. Military thrillers. Books with clear right and wrong where the good guys always won in the end. Zero or hero. A part of Telly clearly wanted to be the hero. The brother who'd saved his sister. The troubled teen who, according to his PO, was trying to do better.

Then we did the best we could, all we could. He was the enemy, Kimberly. He took their lives. And God help both of us, but sometimes the enemy is simply that good.

Survival isn't a destination. It's a journey. And most of the people I help, they're still getting there.

Being a survivor didn't just mean being strong. It meant being lonely.