Quotes About Resilience

The worst part was that she was turning into one of those annoying people who got so caught up whining about a bad situation that they forgot they were actually capable of doing something about it.

She had the rest of her life to think about hoe lonely she was. What she needed to do right now was get trough today. Or at least the next hour.

Andrea had nothing left to dig. She knew her stomach would probably shit out of her throat if she pushed herself any harder.

The most expensive thing she had ever put on her face was a New York strip after a perp had punched her in the eye.

Durch das Leid hindurch, nicht am Leid vorbei, geht der Weg zur Freude.

We are a race of heroes who have outlived the age of heroes!

palabras de Fraenkel, su médico] (...) el paciente, para hacerse dueño de la enfermedad, tiene que integrarla en su vida. (...) Entre el destino y la voluntad Schicksal und Wille

Forgiveness isn't something I'm preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn't my trip.

change is the healthiest way to survive

This class has always to sacrifice a part of itself in order not to be wholly destroyed.

One must force the frozen circumstances to dance, by singing to them their own melody.

Life is struggle.

I've found out that Malakula was named by Captain James Cook. It comes from the French mal au cul which means 'pain in the arse' after Cook found it difficult to deal with cannibals, volcanoes and other annoying features. It's good to know proper explorers sometimes share the feelings I have on my travels.

Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger'. Unless it's polio.

Rhoda, my mother, was what the neighbors euphemistically termed a difficult woman. Her misery was like Texas oil: You could drill anywhere and find some.

HUMOR IS POWER. ~ Karyn Buxman, RN, neurohumorist __________________     Chapter 1 What's NOT So Funny About Nursing?     12 hour shifts . . . Doctors with attitude . . . Cranky co-workers . . . Frequent flyers . . . Non-compliant patients . . . Frustrated administrators . . . Antibiotic-resistant superbugs . . . Healthcare reform . . . Disorganized supply closets . . . Dwindling budgets . . . Increasing workloads . . . Bad hospital coffee.

The world rains on everybody, Laura. We just have to figure out a way to get a bigger umbrella than a lot of other people need, that's all. ~from-Here Comes The Heroes~

Memories leave a light in the eyes, just as plain as scars.

Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced.

Scars heal," Sylvie said. "Even the worst ones.

Just because something bad had happened to her doesn't mean it won't happen again.

What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened - how did you live life then? You had to hand it to Theo Wyre, just carrying on living required a strength and courage that most people didn't have.

you walk into a room and your life ends but you keep on living.

This was love. It didn't come free, you paid in pain. Your own. But then nobody ever said love was easy. Well, they did, but they were idiots.