Quotes About Resilience

One day, everything will be like before again. And it is not like it.

She tried to keep a cute little smile on her face but her face was too tired to be bothered.

My left foot felt fine. It didn't have an ache in it. So I had to kick the corner of the bed with it.

when I get knocked off in a dark alley sometime, if it happens, as it could to anyone in my business, and to plenty of people in any business or no business at all these days, nobody will feel that the bottom has dropped out of his or her life.

So they didn't scare him. Say they just cut off one of his legs and beat him over the head with it. What would he do then—write to the Better Business Bureau?

I got up on my feet and went over to the bowl in the corner and threw cold water on my face. After a little while I felt a little better, but very little. I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.

I needed a drink, I needed a lot of insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.

I never looked back, although I had a good many uneasy periods looking forward. (in The Man With the Golden Typewriter).

I still held his automatic more or less pointed at him, but he swung on me just the same. It caught me flush on the chin. I backstepped fast enough to keep from falling, but I took plenty of the punch. It was meant to be a hard one, but a pansy has no iron in his bones, whatever he looks like.

You know what it is to laugh at death, Arutha. You'll never be the same man again.

There are two kinds of strength. Power and the ability to wield it is obvious, but resilience, the ability to resist power, is the other.

There was nothing left to fear. He would endure or he wouldn't.

Fear is the little death, daughter. It kills in tiny pieces.

Suddenly feeling overwhelmed, Talon said, 'It doesn't matter. They are all dead.' He felt moisture gathering in his eyes and blinked. 'It's been a while since I've felt that.' Caleb nodded. 'It never goes away, completely. But you'll discover other things in life.

No matter how canny you think you are, something can come along, bam, and put you on your prat.

what matters isn't whether or not you're frightened, but how you behave.

Remember, never rely on one plan, Tal. Always have two or more in place when you undertake something perilous. If the first one fails, go to the second plan. If the second plan fails, go to the third." "If the third plan fails, Your Grace?" Kaspar laughed. "Then run like hell if you're still alive.

there was no answer he knew, until he actually faced death.

his mind was an enraged animal, bouncing off the bars of a magically imposed cage, and like an animal, he reacted blindly, striking against the barrier again and again, determined either to be free or to die. Hot

When you lose everything,' Nathan had said, 'you've nothing left to lose. You've got two choices then: either kill yourself or start building a new life. When I started this new life, without my family, I decided the only sensible thing in it was to live for the small rewards: a job well done, a beautiful sunrise, the sound of children laughing at play, a good cup of wine. Makes it easy to deal with the harsher side of life.

But to speed it along, he needs to know that pain will come. The knack is to not engage the pain, not hold on to it like a treasured thing, but to simply let it pass through and wait until it's gone. It will come less frequently and after a time, be gone.

As my grandmother said, 'Sorry won't unbreak the eggs'. Just clean the mess and move on.

Meet your sorrows head on, and after you've wrestled with them, put them behind.

knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happened, did.