Quotes About Resilience

Sam faced something he had never conceived of in all his life—the triumph of calumny.

Nothing hurts me if I don't want it to," she told him.

There were torments in the Himalayas, windspouts in the Grand Canyon, and Judges of the Supreme Court got into sacred rages. What could little boys do, too, about differences between their hearthstones, Mother and Father?

I bet I live till ninety, with all my aches and pains. To think that's fifty more years of the Great I-Am. No wonder I want to make away with myself. Who wouldn't?

God, what we women have to put up with; and I'm not even allowed to complain.

she said, her children should not live on trash, her children had to fight for their livings, having such a silly, puffed-up ignoramus of a father, her girls were not going to be underfed "mud rats.

it was only much later that I found out hardness worked better than love.

Lose your balance for a moment and there you go, the world flings you off its spinning surface and its not so easy to scramble back on.

I had left the cellar filled with ardent hope. A child had died there. She began life again as an adult. I wanted someone else to be glad I was alive. But men were interested in no one but themselves, and the sun caressed my thin arms and pale face with as much indifference as if I had been a blade of grass.

Los pesados bombarderos rusos pasaban por encima de las casas con un sonido de trueno y soltaban sus proyectiles al azar, buscando al enemigo que jugaba a las escondidas con ellos. En éste juego macabro de gallina ciega, éramos nosotros los que estábamos vendados. Con los ojos cerrados, la cara escondida entre las manos, acechábamos el paso de los aviones y nuestros dedos temblorosos palpaban ansiosamente lo muros chorreantes.

Know, if not admit to it, that at the end of some days a single mother's most important tool is her corkscrew. THE WORDS When my marriage fell apart, the situation entailed a whole new lexicon, in some cases a new spin on old words.

Die Mauern aus Feldsteinen, die Dächer aus gebrannten Ziegeln, von Maurern gemauert, nicht von Architekten entworfen. Sie kannten die Winde – jedes Haus eine Festung gegen die Überfälle des Mistrals –, kannten die barmherzige und die unbarmherzige Sonne, kannten den Regen und kannten jene, für die sie bauten.

The only access now to the world, the universe, is made through bits and pieces, clung to as small heroes battling against withdrawal.

So we come upon the radical idea that happiness is not about how many good times we've had and bummers we haven't had, but from being willing to greet life as it occurs, to meet it and respond in its gush and flow. We don't attach ourselves to the contents of life, but we celebrate the very process of being alive.

When expectations of mobility are combined with a consumer mind-set, people are very likely to leave when things get difficult.

For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that it hurts.

A woman with a mind is fit for any task.

Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.

I killed Freddie the vamp like twenty times, but he wouldn't die. --Natalya Shonski

Of course I can do this. I'm pregnant, not brain-damaged. My condition doesn't change my personality.

His lips slid over her ear. "My mind shares yours. If you're determined to go through with this, then know whatever this takes you, you won't be alone, Tansy. I'm strong. I'll find your mind and I'll bring you back." "Last time I broke into a million pieces." "I'll find each one.

Ishte si kub, zemërmirë dhe praktik.

Cdo gjë ndryshon. Edhe në grahmat e fundit sikur të jesh, duhet të mundohesh t'ia nisësh nga e para. Por ajo që bëhet, nuk mund të zhbëhet më. është njëlloj si uji që, kur e përziejmë me verë, nuk mund ta marrim dot më mbrapsht.

I would not have died had I not had this treatment. I'd have gone on existing, but I would hardly have gone on living.