Quotes About Resilience

I had very few friends. There was nobody I could trust. I left home when I was fifteen. I lived in Washington Square Park.

And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.

Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along.

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make sense to us. Our Town kept coming into my mind.

I grew up in Chillum Heights in the Washington, D.C. area., and it was never a garden spot. When guys go, 'Hey, when I grew up, my neighborhood was tough, and it was this and that'... the reality is that it was just a terribly sad place. And thank God, I was able to escape it.

My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave.

One foot in front of the other was all she could manage.

Dying took commitment. It was easier to go on living incompetently.

We curl around our own pain until we can't see beyond ourselves. You want to walk on? Walk out of that shadow.

Sometimes everyone does their best and things still go wrong.

Tess trembled so hard her teeth chattered. "So it is with the body," said the nun, eyes narrowing fiercely. "The hated innocent becomes hateful. Goodness withers when it is continuously ground underfoot. We fulfill our parents' direst prophecies, then curl around our own pain until we can't see beyond ourselves.

The world is surprisingly hard to destroy, whereas saving it can be done a bit at a time.

You won't like hearing this, but sometimes you can't fix what you broke. Sometimes you just have to live with it.

Anyway, it wasn't that flavor of love. She could leave and carry it with her. Time would not put a dent in it, nor distance snuff it out.

Bend like a willow. You made it sound so simple." "It was simple." "Indeed. I bent and changed everything. This is going to have consequences.

The world is surprisingly hard to destroy.

The words bounced off her like a stone skipping over the surface of a lake. A stone may skip a long way, but it always sinks eventually.

O saar, beware! Beware the horde, The ones you never see. We build your lairth, Repair, invent, We do all this for free. You torch our hideth You crunch our boneth Kill with impunity, But we are not Tho helpless now. Our day cometh. We are free.

The most useful virtues, for one who walked on, were flexibility and a willingness to improvise.

She still held sorrows, but she was not made of them. Her life was not a tragedy.

No matter how much you wanted to do right in this world, the world would find a way to crush you.

The hated innocent becomes hateful. Goodness withers when it is continuously ground underfoot.

You're stronger than you were when it happened.