Quotes About Resilience

Man, life's going to keep pushing you sround, but you have to keep playing Book 3, p378

Man, life's going to keep pushing you around, but you have to keep playing Book 3, p378

The love she had felt for him in the past was still there within her, covered over now like a bandaged wound, not yet healed underneath and perhaps still easily reopened.

I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.

I'm very proud of being a hack. It's why I've lived as long as I have, I think.

For the first week, I stood in front of that little thing on the sidewalk and wanted to punch anybody that stepped on it.

Never speak harshly of your enemy -- when you can kick 'im in the shins instead!

Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain-passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.

If you run away from trouble, it always follows.

Every human being was a victim of something, whether it was desire, addiction, ignorance, or faith.

But the boy knew that monsters didn't die as easily as hope.

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relives you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season

She'd been in survival mode for so long that she hadn't been able to dream about her future. She was finally free to do so.

Your recovery is going to be painstaking, like the way the ants are building the tunnels, one grain at a time. But you will get there. I just know it.

So there developed another kind, more of a lumpen hippie, who really came from an abused childhood—from parents that hated them, from parents that threw them out. Maybe they came from a religious family that would call them sluts or say, "You had an abortion, get out of here" or "I found birth control pills in your purse, get out of here, go away." And those kids fermented into a kind of hostile street person. Punk types.

Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.

We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.

It is one thing to say you're at war with this whole world and stick your chest out believing it, but when the world shows up with it's crushing numbers and its predatory knowledge, it is another thing completely.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

You can't destroy knowledge. You can stamp it under and burn it up and forbid it to be, but somewhere it will survive.

A hard-boiled little lamb going to talk a lot of lions out of their dinner, Comyn told himself grimly.

They would say anything, because they have dreamed this dream too long to be denied.

I entrench myself in books equally against sorrow and the weather.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers