Quotes About Resilience

Crystal didn't like delays. She was a fast-moving, efficient person, and when her way was blocked, she became very tense and spoke with her lips in two hard lines.

She looked powerful, Lina thought, even though she was very short.

But the sorrow and the fear lasted only a few seconds. Everyone was tired of sorrow and fear. Whatever lay ahead, they thought, would probably be better. They were willing to try it.

It had taken me twenty-five years to reach the point where I could talk openly about Manzanar

Now she wanted for me the same thing I thought I wanted. Acceptance, in her eyes, was simply another means for survival.

The times I thought I had dreamed it were one way of getting rid of it, part of wanting to lose it, part of what you might call a whole Manzanar mentality I had lived with for twenty-five years. Much more than a remembered place, it had become a state of mind. Now, having seen it, I no longer wanted to lose it or to have those years erased. Having found it, I could say what you can only say when you've truly come to know a place: Farewell

The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.

Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.

God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.

It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.

It (the sun) didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.

Life there was hard and it made people hard.

Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

Don't be afraid of your dark places," Mom told her. "If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there.

That was the thing to remember about all monsters, Dad said: They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run. "All you have to do, Mountain Goat, is show old Demon that you're not afraid.

When God closes a door, he opens a window, but it's up to you to find it.

What doesn't kill you will make you stronger

Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.

everyone who is interesting has a past

She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.

To all families who, despite their scars, still find a way to love.

Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age was how to get things done, and this was a source of both amazement and concern for Mom, who considered my behavior unladylike but also counted on me. I never knew a girl to have such gumption, she'd say. But I'm not too sure it's a good thing.