Quotes About Resilience

My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

Ad un certo punto della vita non è la speranza l'ultima a morire, ma il morire è l'ultima speranza.

YaÅŸamda belli bir noktaya gelince, en son ölen umut deÄŸil, en son umut ölümdür.

Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded by the sun, we will yet force it to smile.

She had watched Rome burn down, taking with it her own world.

Do not fear those who bear you ill will, they soon shall fall in shame," read Georgina, cackling with mirth.

Do not fear those who bear you ill will, they soon shall fall in shame.

Cast down by sadness, I walked far into the mountains where the cypresses grew so pointed one would have taken them for arms, where the brambles had thorns as big as claws.

Do not give up hope entirely in spite of the horror of your situation. I am mobilising all my mental capacities to obtain your unconditional freedom.

Do not fear autumn, if it has come. Although the flower falls, the branch remains. The branch remains to make the nest.

If I had been armed with a feminist understanding that no girl deserves to be called a slut, perhaps I would have fought back by reporting the harassment to my school's headmistress or another school authority, or at least I might have had the strength to tell of the name-callers on my own. But at the time, all I knew was that if I avoided eye contact, it was a hell of a lot easier to get through my days.

White women who were raped were expected to die as a result of their abuse. Their degradation was expected to be totalizing, making postrape life unimaginable. But black female slaves survived their rapes and continued the work they were forced to do—a circumstance used as evidence that they were not properly feminine.11 According

No book or expert can protect us from the range of painful emotions that make us human.

I am not a victim. I am alive, wide awake and free from the numbness of apathy.

Never let the odds keep you from pursuing What you know in your heart you were meant to do.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that really count are the things that happen in you." 

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up.

No matter how bad it is...or how bad it gets...I'm going to make it.

Never say you're having a bad day...say you're having a character building day

Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.

I have the power to handle whatever comes up.