Quotes About Resilience

Crying was an acceptable outlet, even if it made you feel raw and empty inside, it was still better than that build up of resentment that grew from not letting your emotions out. - My Bestfriend's Girl -

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

My only gift can be this blazing blade, this knife's sharp constancy.

Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you

Résumé Razors pain you, Rivers are damp, Acids stain you, And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful, Nooses give, Gas smells awful. You might as well live.

Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.

Four be the things I'd been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.

Guns aren't lawful;Nooses give;Gas smells awful;You might as well live.

Résumé Razors pain you, Rivers are damp, Acids stain you, And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful, Nooses give, Gas smells awful. You might as well live.

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.

Not spoiling' a child means trying to break that child's spirit.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.

But Mrs. Brockington, old, alone, almost crippled by rheumatism, had faith and courage. She had more. She had a warm serenity, and when Ellen was with her, she almost had it too. For goodness is catching. Mrs. Brockington was further on the road Ellen wanted to travel, and because Mrs. Brockington had got there, Ellen felt she might get there too.

Meanwhile, if these hours be dark at least do not let us sit deedless, like fools and fine gentlemen, thinking the common toil not good enough for us and beaten by the muddle; but rather let us work like good fellows trying by some dim candlelight to set our workshop ready against to-morrow's daylight. William Morris.

It's not easy being easy.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

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EASY" Is there, we wonder, some virtue in being difficult?

A friend of ours, when she trips over some surprisingly intense emotional response, says, philosophically, "Oh well—AFOG," which stands, she says, for Another Fucking Opportunity for Growth.

There was nobody to help us. And nobody to stop us.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.