Quotes About Resilience

Nothing of significance was ever achieved without negative input from other people.

It was said that a person was only as big as the smallest thing that annoyed them...

Philosophical systems have a habit of collapsing under the scrutiny of the next malcontent to come along.

Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.

almost a grown man, yet when it came to his mutant

I have a box at school, Storm, filled with photos of friends and famiy. They have one thing in common. They're all dead. How long 'til add your name to the list, huh? What am I suppposed to do, keep on going 'til there's no one left I love?

The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.

We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.

I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived .

I'm telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.

I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.

I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope.

At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.

I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee

I do not know why the mind chooses these small things to break itself on.

Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well-- here is the truth-- you have to talk yourself out of it.

A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.

Everything can be restored. If one won't believe that, how does one endure all this?

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

turned out that the only difference between children and adults was that children were prepared to put twice the energy into the project of not being sad.