Quotes About Resilience

I wish I could tell you that I leapt to my feet anyway, snake be dammed. Or that I wrestled the snake and then fought my opponent. But I saw the icy cold disdain in the snake's eyes and did the only prudent thing I could - I froze in my place. After a long few moments, the grew bored and slithered away, as had my opponent. Yet I felt that I had won, for I lived to fight another day.

Life is made up of moments, good and bad. But while you don't get to pick all the moments, you do get to pick which ones you cling to.

No soft-skinned, lace-covered, dandified profligate would ever take this house and make it his. Ever.

Love can't cure a broken heart, but it can hold the two sides together while they heal.

Life was a hard teacher, but a thorough one.

I am not made of porcelain, Anthony. Nor do I need to be wrapped in wool and placed in a box for safekeeping. I don't like boxes; I never have.

And that was love. True love. The kind that carried on and lasted through the good days and the difficult days. The kind of love that always gave, and never hurt. It might not be the kind of mad love poets wrote about, but it was the kind of love strong enough to build a home upon, secure in the knowledge that this man would be there when things went wrong and would do everything in his considerable power to make things right again.

People who really live have a little wear and tear. But that's good. It's what makes us interesting.

We must all run through a storm or two before we reach our destinations.

Change never hurt nobody, child. You know that. It's those who can't or won't change who lose.

It's sad, but life is not fair. I sometimes think it was never supposed to be. Life is made up of moments, good and bad. But while you don't get to pick all the moments, you do get to pick which ones you cling to.

Ma had been a tumbleweed too, holding on for as long as she could, then blowing away on the wind. My father was more like the sod. Steady, silent, and deep. Holding on to life, with reserves underneath to sustain him, and me, And anyone else who came near. My father stayed rooted, even with my tests and my temper, even with the double sorrow of his grief and my own, he had kept a home until I broke it.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

No one would have liked that. Maybe I liked it even less. Here we go again, I said to myself. I said this so distinctly in my head that I heard it as well as said it. As if I was quite used to finding someone with no sense of boundaries in my space, fiddling with my things and breaking most of them. Here we go again

We don't choose whom we love," he told Maura, so gently that she knew he knew. If she wasn't going to be loved in return, she would have liked not to be pitied for it. She got neither of these wishes. "But people have this advantage over swans, to put their unwise loves aside and love another. Not me. I'm too much swan for that.

She used to grip me so tightly that the only way I could put her down was to pry her loose, one digit at a time. For two years, I had bruises from her fingers and toes all over my body.

The storm which blew me out of my past eased off. —FRANZ KAFKA, "A Report for an Academy

The storm which blew me out of my past eased off.

But where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail. .

Where you succeed will never so much matter as where you fail. -We Are All Beside Ourselves

WHERE YOU SUCCEED will never matter so much as where you fail," I said.

It is an unwise man who constantly looks into the past to condemn himself. You breathe life today, and it is what you do now that will see you through to tomorrow.

I noticed the look of astonishment pass between Evelyn and Tamara and couldn't resist throwing them a triumphant look. The meek mouse they thought they were dealing with had grown sharp teeth. And she would use them if she had to