Quotes About Resilience

You will see: women are weak, but mothers are strong.

A memory from before: his sister arriving home from school with her new jump rope trailing behind her on the sidewalk. They let me turn the handle, she said, but they wouldn't let me jump. She had cut the rope up into tiny pieces and tossed them into the ivy and sworn she would never jump rope again.

And remember, it's easier to bend than to break.

Not once did we ever have the money to buy them a single toy. AND

Many of us had lost everything and left saying nothing at all. All of us left wearing white numbered identification tags tied to our collars and lapels.

Niekas nelaimi karo.Visi pralaimi

One of us continues to swim back and forth in her lane long after everyone else has gotten out, and when we call out her name - Alice, time's up! - the lifeguard lifts his hand and says, quietly, One more lap.

Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are.

Mas o cinismo persistente deixa uma pessoa rabugenta e, em demasia, pode provocar estragos duradouros no nosso coração.

Ma o cinismo persistente deixa uma pessoa rabugenta e, em demasia, pode provocar estragos duradouros no nosso coração.

Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite.

You cannot poison what is between us with your foul words. She is my light in the darkness and Johnny is my pathway ahead.

Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.

She went on because there was no going back.

Trust can be a hard lesson; hope still more difficult.

As for me, I had found love, and that was a gift worth suffering for.

I wept in self-pity, and because I knew you could never go back. You chose your path, and that was it.

Some broken things you can't mend. Some you have to put together very slowly piece by fragile piece, waiting until the last bit of work is strong enough before you try the next. It takes a lot of patience.

Ask us for any help you need...Let us be strong for you.

Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.

I told you once," said Red, "that I wanted to hear your voice. I did not think the first words I would hear would be these." "Those were not the first words," I whispered, fighting tears. I would not weep.

What did she give you?" He turned and smiled at me, the curve of his wide mouth transforming his face completely. "Faith in myself," he said simply. "To do what's right, and not falter, no matter how hard it gets.

There is no place here for softness. Let folk in too close and you offer them up as weapons for your own destruction.

The most powerful weapon is hope.