Quotes About Resilience

Little kids are amazing. They seem able to adjust to anything.

Anything could go wrong any day of the week. What's the point of worrying in advance?

You better get used to it. You're going to be on the ground a lot today, but cheer up... tomorrow you'll be an expert.

Not that memories were enough—they didn't keep you warm on a cold winter's night. They couldn't hold you when you were frightened or sad. But they were better than nothing.

There are some people who just make you want to see how far you can go.

You can fill a lifetime with if only's or you can get on with it.

We all have to make decisions. I'm not saying it's easy. But you don't have to collapse every time you come face-to-face with an obstacle.

Anything could go wrong any day of the week. What's the point of worrying in advance?" "How do you stop yourself from worrying?" "I think of all the good things in my life." "What about the bad things?" "There's no room for them inside my head. Not anymore. Now I say live and let live, and I kick those other thoughts away. You can do that, too.

And I'm Hermione from—

Miri, sweetheart—life is hard," Henry said, "but it's worth the struggle.

She'd learned a long time ago to look ahead, not back. What's done is done. Make the best of it and move on.

When you're without problems," Clare said, "you're dead.

Well then, I'll just have to suffer

contributed to the disaster.

Forget it . . . I'm never

Then remember what I'm telling you. Keep your feelings to yourself. Don't ever show anyone your disappointment

Through all kinds of weather What if the sky should fall Just as long as we're together It doesn't matter at all

This grandmother person looked Vix, Lewis, and Lanie up and down without moving her head. Then she said, "Well, Tawny, I can see you've been busy." And that was it. Tawny didn't cry when Darlene died the next day.

But you can't go back. Not ever. You have to pick up the pieces and keep moving ahead.

For the rest of her life, every lovers' quarrel would remind Vix of this night, this night when anger crackled in the air. She vowed then and there no guy would ever make her feel that bad.

like my mother, like the ranchwomen who peopled my childhood, I would not spout ideology or argue theory. Strong women roared in silence. We roared by doing.

There is an old saying that every time you sigh, a drop of blood falls from your heart. It seems I sigh more now than I ever did, and that probably means my heart has lost many tear-shaped drops. I have lived my life, as we all do, between these sighs, between these drops of blood.

Leonard (Cohen) never broke my heart, but his songs have, every time I sing or hear one of them. As Leonard says, "There is a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in.

But the odds against me were getting higher each day. I, who was my own worst enemy, needed a best friend. I thought booze was my friend. I did not know I was in a fight—not just with my lawyers, not just with my husband, but also with my disease. I didn't know I could not win this one on my own, that it would take years, and a change of mind and heart, to win the battle with an opponent I could not even see.