Quotes About Resilience

Maybe she couldn't be drowned.

You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

How many times must hope die before tears were too deep to bear?

That's all any of us can do. Try. sometimes I think it's not the winning or the losing, or even the right and wrong of things, it's the trying that makes us keep on living and hoping.

Triumph comes through perserverance.

Times like this are like muddy water, Rea, you just got to keep moving through it until you get to the other side.

How will your experience pave the way for a new voice in America? I hope it will take you out these doors, out into the open air. You will breathe it in your lungs and say, "From now on, this life will be what I stand for . . . Move over–this is my story now."

Carry on the Flame to a new dawn I am with you. ~the Goddess of the Stars and the Sea

If he's just not into you anymore, then buy yourself a cute pair of shoes and strut your fabulousness elsewhere.

Child, I have been around a lot of years, and if you don't laugh, you cry.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.

Anyone can face ease and success with confidence. It is the way we face trouble and misfortune that defines us.

A man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from.

Round and round in circles we go, clutching at successes we never grasp, endlessly tripping over the same old failures. Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

Armour …' mused Whirrun, licking a finger and scrubbing some speck of dirt from the pommel of his sword, 'is part of a state of mind … in which you admit the possibility … of being hit.

One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.

An open mind is like to an open wound,' growled Glokta. 'Vulnerable to poison.