Quotes About Resilience

But sometimes the only way to healing is through the corridor of pain.

So this, too, was true of love: it could make us forget our own needs. It could make us strong even when the world was collapsing around us.

Perhaps that was why I had to endure pain— because true transformation can only happen in the crucible of suffering. All impurities fall away from gold only when it's heated to melting.

Wait for a man to avenge your honour and you'll wait forever.

He never wasted time, Ram, especially on things he believed he couldn't change.

Sarojini admits he has a point; girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women, and surely Bimal does a good job of that. But deep in a hidden place inside her that is stubborn as a mudfish, Sarojini knows she is right, too. Being loved a little more than necessary arms a girl in a different way.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The shock I'd felt, standing in the doorway, was a terrible thing. But what was worse was that in a moment it was gone, as though all along a part of me had known that this was where I was headed. That I, too, hadn't been worth a man's faithful loving.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

A problem is a problem only if you believe it to be so.

Because that's the thing about us human beings when we really love someone, we can be happy even while our heart is breaking.

Things are breaking down inside of her. She waits to see if she can build new, satisfying shapes from them.

Once I said to my mother, As long as there's fresh bread in this world, things can't be beyond repair.

Weeping is not bad. It clears out the heart, making space in it for growth.

Write our story, too. For always we've been pushed into corners, trivialized, misunderstood, blamed, forgotten—or maligned and used as cautionary tales.

There will be challenges—which worthwhile endeavor doesn't have them?—but I am prepared. Love will give me strength. Do not worry about me. It will be a grand adventure.

She would learn over the next years that love can feel a lot of different ways, and sometimes it can hurt a lot more.

Pain, which is ultimately only like itself.

til which fried in its own oil restores lustre when one has lost interest in life. I will be Tilottama, the essence of til, life-giver, restorer of health and hope.

Bless me that I might be like the Rani of Jhansi, the Queen of Swords," I say. "Bless me that I have the courage to go into battle when necessary, no matter how bleak the situation. Bless me that I may be able to fight for myself and my child, no matter where I am.

Sometimes—she knows this from her own life—to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

If there is one thing his story has taught me, it is that when all the dross is melted away from the human heart, only gold remains.

I pondered the word endure, what it meant. It didn't mean giving in. It didn't mean being weak or accepting injustice. It meant taking the challenges thrown at us and dealing with them as intelligently as we knew until we grew stronger than them. That was what I'd work on.