Quotes About Resilience

Wendelin Van Draanen

Wendelin Van Draanen

No hay nada como una mujer de cabeza fuerte para hacerte feliz de estar vivo.

I had trouble climbing little trees and monkey bars. A roof1.

it doesn't matter if it's in your house or in your heart. Dust never truly settles.

10:05 p.m. I don't want your SYMPATHY your PITY your BAND-AID on my MISERY I don't want your WELFARE your I CARE your SHE'S-NOT-LOOKING-NOW-LET'S-STARE Just give me a CHANCE a FAIR FIGHTING CHANCE

There's nothing like a head-strong woman to make you happy to be alive.

It's easy to find our better selves in the sunshine of prosperity. What we must remember is to not lose those selves during times of hardship.

To hold a mighty heart.

Wendelin Van Draanen

He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.

After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness seemed to come in at last and lie down.

What can't be helped must be endured.

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't. The light that shines into darkness and never goes out calls them on into life. It calls them back again into the great room. It calls them into their bodies and into the world, into whatever the world will require. It calls them into work and pleasure, goodness and beauty, and the company of other loved ones.

Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you must'nt shirk it. Love, after all, hopeth all things. But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

We've all got to go through enough to kill us.

I've come down from the sky like some damned ghost, delayed too long…To the abandoned fields the trees returned and grew. They stand and grow. Time comes To them, time goes, the trees Stand; the only place They go is where they are. Those wholly patient ones… They do no wrong, and they Are beautiful. What more Could we have thought to ask?... I stand and wait for light to open the dark night. I stand and wait for prayer to come and find me here." Sabbaths 2000 IX

The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either. After death and grief that (it seems) ought to have stopped the world, the world goes on. More things happen. And some of the things that happen are good.

Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

Christians have many good reasons for hope. Optimism is another matter. Optimism assumes that, sooner or later, things will naturally turn out for the better. Hope has no such illusions. That