Quotes About Resilience

A trick to play in your mind when your troubled. You think of yourself as a tree, with all the rings inside. And every ring is someone you care about, or a place you've been. You carry them with you wherever you go.

WHEN YOUR WORLD is small, you learn every inch of it. You can trace it in the dark; you navigate it in your sleep.

notice." The false cheer in her voice is evidence of how

The most important qualities a human can possess are an iron will and a persevering spirit,

I'm one of few children on the train who can read. Mam taught me all my letters years ago, in Ireland, then taught me how to spell. When we got to New York, she'd make me read to her, anything with words on it—crates and bottles I found in the street.

It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.

When you live on a farm, everyone is uncomfortable much of the time. Too cold, too warm, dirty, bone tired, banged up, injured by a tool or hot grate - too preoccupied to worry much about each other

I remember her words to me when I left school: Your mind will be your comfort. It is, sometimes. And sometimes it isn't.

People have maladies of all kinds, she says, and if they have any sense, they don't waste time whining about them. "We all have our burdens to bear," she says. "You know what yours is, now. That's good. You'll never be surprised by it.

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tough and weird is preferable to pathetic and vulnerable...

she knows from experience that tough and weird is preferable to pathetic and vulnerable, and she wears her Goth persona like armor.

I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable.

The most important qualities a human can possess are an iron will and a persevering spirit," Mamey says.

The stark gray sky and bare tree limbs feel more suited to her than the uncomplicated promise of sunny spring days.

There are many ways to be crippled, I've learned over the years, many forms of paralysis.)

I feel myself battening down, fortressing

Nos aferramos el uno al otro como supervivientes de un naufragio, asombrados de que ninguno de los dos se haya ahogado.

Regret?" Vivian raises her shoulders in a shrug. "I'm not sure what good it is to regret.

Molly learned long ago that a lot of the heartbreak and betrayal that other people fear their entire lives, she has already faced. Father dead. Mother off the deep end. Shuttled around and rejected time and time again. And still she breathes and sleeps and grows taller. She wakes up every morning and puts on clothes. So when she says it's okay, what she means is that she knows she can survive just about anything. And

When Vivian describes how it felt to be at the mercy of strangers, Molly nods. She knows full well what it's like to tamp down your natural inclinations, to force a smile when you feel numb.

Molly learned long ago that a lot of the heartbreak and betrayal that other people fear their entire lives, she has already faced...So when she says it's okay, what she means is that she knows she can survive just about anything.

And even if she loses the charms, she thinks, they'll always be a part of her. The things that matter stay with you, seep into your skin.

My da used to say it's good to test your limits now and then, learn what the body is capable of, what you can endure.