Quotes About Resilience

Because if I see you defeated, then I think I will see Alban defeated, and if that happens, none of us can go on. To guard you is to guard the heart of this land of ours.

But I believe we all have an inner goodness; a little flame that stays alight through the worst of trials.

You are a child no longer, whatever you might wish. You are a woman with a woman's body, and you do not think or feel as you did back there at Sevenwaters, when you ran wild in the forest and the trees spread their canopy to shelter you. Men will look at you. Come to terms with it, Sorcha. You cannot hide forever. They will look at you with desire in their eyes. You were taken against your will, and it damaged you. But life goes on.

Somewhere, beneath that darkness, I had seen both strength and honor. But his words of despair mocked my efforts at healing.

I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.

Part of me has turned wild, and another part's turned dark as endless night, and I'm not going to change back just because someone says I must.

That's what it is to be a hero," Ríordán says. "It's fighting on even when you're hopelessly outnumbered. It's seeing your friends dying all around you, witnessing the most shocking cruelty you could imagine, and still finding the courage to go on. It's doing the very best you can.

Hope fought hard to stay alive. Even when you thought it was beaten to nothing, burned to ashes, drowned deep, still it flickered away, waiting to be found again.

I often tell myself, there is no point in wishing certain things had not happened. We can't change what has been, only do our best with what is to come.

But some things did not change... Courage, for instance. Dedication to a cause. Comradeship. When they were strong and pure, when they came from deep in the bone, those qualities could hold fast against all odds.

There was never any question, not even in the darkest moment, that the hero would conquer both his enemies and his self-doubt.

To lose you is to spill my heart's blood. I do not know if I can bear the pain.

You must hold on to hope, or this cannot happen. Let hope go, and your battle is lost.

You should be brave. Running away isn't brave. The brave thing, the hard thing is to tell the truth. To face up to whatever it is.

The flame of spirit we all had within us, the light that never truly went out, even in our times of deepest despair.

When you felt sad or angry or hopeless, a story could help. A story could lead you into a different world for a while.

Step by small step; that was the only way I'd survive my time of penance. My lesson in patience. Or whatever it was.

A story could lead you into a different world for a while. It might be a world where a foolish youngest son could turn into a brave and clever hero, or a beaten young woman could end up as a wise leader of folk. And when the story was ended and that world was gone, you still had the idea of it inside you. Like a flame that didn't go out even when the bad things rattled and swirled and screamed, and worse, oh, much worse, when they whispered and goaded and tormented.

Porquê Sorcha? - disse ele. -Porquê ela para tanto sofrimento? Ela está inocente de qualquer maldade, incapaz de um pensamento mau. Porque há-de ela fazer este sacrifício por nós? - Porque é a mais forte - disse Conor simplesmente. - Porque dobra com o vento, mas não quebra. Sorcha é o fio que nos liga a todos. Sem ela somos como folhas ao vento, sopradas de um lado para o outro.

a small, spare, gray-haired man whose face had the calm acceptance of one whose spirit has remained whole through a lifetime of trials.

Nothing like hard work for driving away the shadows.

It's fighting on even when you're hopelessly outnumbered. It's seeing your friends dying all around you, witnessing the most shocking cruelty you could imagine, and still finding the courage to go on. It's doing the very best you can.

Folk are easy hurt, no doubt about that. Easy wounded. Easy broken.

To allow hope into the heart is to open oneself to bitter disappointment.