Quotes About Resilience

A nondescript place, but it had inevitably changed over the years; one of the old oaks had been split by lightning and now lay on its side, and the others had grown into behemoths around their fallen comrade.

Fallen woman. The term made a sort of poetic sense. Once the fall started, it seemed it never stopped.

It was all there was of life: moments of grace between the upheavals and changes.

He had looked into the barrel of enemy rifles, the slavering jaws of a furious bear, the lifeless faces of his father and brother. He could build a home from the stripped timbers on up, shoot to kill nearly anything, expertly hold a newborn baby. He figured he'd been tested in more ways than Hercules, and in the end he supposed he was grateful that the war had sorted the entirety of his life into two categories for him: what was worth living for, what was worth dying for.

Sometimes being heroic means showing uncommon grace in the face of untenable circumstances.

She didn't want to need anything, particularly something—or someone—she quite simply couldn't have. Too much had been taken from her already, and she'd had enough of accommodating pain, of straightening her spine, of soldiering on

What I know is you can't go back. You can't press delete and re-key your life.

I had to fight so hard not to cry.

I just want the pain to end.

You're taller than I am, but I'm stronger, and meaner right this minute than you could ever imagine - Lady Madelyne.

Trouble follows you like a shadow, Gillian. You're prone to injuries. I swear to God, if a tree decided to fall right now, it would find your head to land on. Oh, for heaven's sake, she muttered. I'll admit that I have had a run of bad fortune, but— He wouldn't let her continue. A run of bad fortune? Since I've known you, you've been beaten, stabbed and now shot with an arrow. If this keeps up, you'll be dead in another month

Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart.

When she was rested. she'd find a way to escape. It was the duty of the captive, wasn't it?

much strength and endurance did she have stored inside her? He hoped to God she had enough to see this nightmare through.

Nathan had just announced that come hell or high water,he was going to fix his flower.He just needed time to find out how.

Julie Garwood

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." —Ralph Waldo Emerson

The plan was changed now, whether he liked it or not, for he knew with a certainty that both amazed and infuriated him, that he'd never let Madelyne go.

All warriors have scars. They're marks of valor.

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Life, oblivious to his grief, continued

Everything else still unknown. Somehow you have to do it. Somehow you have to survive.

It keeps us centered and focused, it slows down the aging process, it lowers our blood pressure, it improves our stamina, our memory, our lung capacity, our general outlook on life itself.

They learned that some people are born luckier than others and that things in this world do not always go as you plan. STILL