Quotes About Resilience

She walked the edge of the anxiety attack, feeling the shakes and knowing that she either found solid footing now or plunged into the abyss.

I've made my mistakes and taken my licks and I still think a quiet life is overrated.

You hurt, and you hate hurting. Worse, you feel helpless, which in turn makes you feel hopeless, and you are not a woman accustomed to either emotion.

He's familiar, but he's not the same. He's an American whose family came from Haiti. My aunt, my sister, myself, we are Haitians who now live in America. He has never felt the ground shake beneath his feet. He doesn't understand that it can happen again.

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Lisa Gardner

So you've studied psychobabble and you've attended half of the FBI Academy. What does that make you? Someone who also lost her sister. And her mother, too, for that matter. Trump. In the contest of who has gotten dumped on more by life, I believe I just won.

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We are both women who understand there's no point to the coulda, woulda, shouldas of life.

There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it.

Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.

I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no way you can govern a Chinese society.

I think the central theme about black society is that it has got elements of a defeated society

Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.

The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create as an artist.

The black man in America is the same as the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. We are strangers in a land that is not ours. We are rejected by this type of modern Pharaoh or pharohnic society.