Quotes About Resilience

There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.

I'm so amazed," he says, "by the ability of life to hang on to anything. Given the opportunity, it goes everywhere. A species as creative and arguably intelligent as our own should somehow find a way to achieve a balance. We have a lot to learn, obviously. But I haven't given up on us.

Bred to the pavement and steel that became his life's work, he nonetheless marvels at the annual miracle of baby peregrine falcons hatching high atop the George Washington's towers, and at the sheer botanical audacity of grass, weeds, and ailanthus trees that defiantly bloom, far from topsoil, from metal niches suspended high above the water.

You grow based on exploiting strengths, not by acclimating to weaknesses.

But we have not understood the world; how its way is to destroy without destroying, the way air levels a mountain; things fly apart in a vacuum... It wears us to the hard thing we cannot help being; and if the only hard thing is our determination not to be hard, it wears us down to that.

Blame someone else and get on with your life.

The persecution that was destroying me had become a necessity.

Forensics had taught her that scars left tissue much tougher than skin.

America's a very traumatized society.

You live, you learn You love, you learn You cry, you learn You lose, you learn You bleed, you learn You scream, you learn

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

Oh, hello, Mr. Man You didn't think I'd come back You didn't think I'd show up with my army And this ammunition on my back...I see right through you

Swallow it down (what a jagged little pill)

I need a heart so pure that if it's stripped bare by dementia, it will survive.

Dear God I am tired. It is late. Writing like Shakespeare is hard work for a woman with a cracked head who cannot spell properly.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

Thankfully there is a tiny sliver of my brain that fights back. Without it I would never do anything interesting.

It is easy to begin but hard to stick at, which is why I respect anyone who has completed a long hike. You learn a lot, someone, by hiking in the hills

It's called optimism — but I'm losing the hang of it fast.

Arethusa liked to call us Poseidon's Children. Orphans of the storm. We'd endured the worst the world could throw at us, the worst consequences of our own stupidity, and came through ... ready to face the dawn. But there are always more storms, Chiku.

Adapt and survive. Make do and mend. These were good mottos for a time traveller.

Rise to the occasion. Roar like a lion.

Sufficient determination will conquer any natural reluctance.

We're all Poseidon's children, Geoffrey: whether we like it or not." "Poseidon's children," he repeated. "Is that supposed to mean something?" "We came through. That's all. We weathered the absolute worst that history could throw at us, and we thrived. Now it's time to start doing something useful with our lives.