Quotes About Resilience

People are not measured by their accomplishments, but by how many times they screw up trying to achieve them.

And you thought: they're used to it. But that was how those who suffered less always thought about those who suffered more, that they were used to it, that they no longer felt it as you did. Nobody ever got used to it. All they learned to do was to stop letting it show.

She loved herself, and her body's resistance to all those poisons was the exact measure of how indestructibly young and beautiful she felt she was.

True love is like a metal tested in a fire. Fires of adversity surround us daily. Are we to love only when it is merely convenient? Like gold or silver, which very hot fire must heat to purge them of impurities, love must be thrust into the fire from time to time to make it purer, stronger and more resilient. And in the same way, live shines its brightest right out of the flames.

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring the ship in?

bear their crosses. They pick up these crosses to overcome suffering. They actively seek to end suffering and violence

It cannot rain all the time...

Mira chico, aparta esa pistola. Las balas no me detienen, las navajas no me hieren... Mira...¡Mírame! Soy el error del piloto, soy la malformación del feto, soy el cromosoma aleatorio... soy la más completa y total locura... soy el miedo...

There are silences that can be heard, even from the dead and from the severely oppressed. Much is recoverable from an apparently forgotten past. Sensitive and faithful historians can learn much of what has been lost, and much therefore that can be continued.

Vitality cannot be given, only found.

nature allows no master over itself.

No one emerges from a troubled childhood without the battle scars to prove it. It is amazing that we fare as well as we do.

The heroism of the working cowboy isn't a joke . . . it isn't something that has been cooked up by an advertising agency, and it isn't something that cheap minds will ever understand. Cowboys are heroic because they exercise human courage on a daily basis. They live with danger. They take chances. They sweat, they bleed, they burn in the summer and freeze in the winter. They find out how much a mere human can do, and then they do a little more. They reach beyond themselves.

I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.

You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.

I vill now destroy de Snickuhs bahs!"-Gazzy

You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.

Rashers, me heart, if it was raining soup, you'd have nothing but a fork.

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. —Chinese proverb

It was hard to stay miserable with Mike around. But I'd try.

She made no point of concealing the truth, for the truth was all she could bear now.

Everything changed, and eleven months later, here I was in the middle of the night with a gungho major, playing secret agent, hoping some Frenchie didn't put a bullet in my skull before I gave the Germans and Italians their chance.

Words do nothing against them in the short term, so we bow to the storm winds and wait. We wait, and we have faith.

James R. Chiles